{"product_id":"seesaw-looking-at-photographs-9781644450444","title":"See\/Saw: Looking at Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Known as the Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/i\u003e shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day--including artists such as Eug ne Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb--the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer's \u003ci\u003eThe Ongoing Moment\u003c\/i\u003e, and heir to Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Sontag's \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and John Berger's \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding a Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Geoff Dyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39816905982133,"sku":"9781644450444","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ff6dccbe-492a-40a8-8e4c-bfc2289e7f33.jpg?v=1618927457","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seesaw-looking-at-photographs-9781644450444","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}