See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

A lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition


See/Saw 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 Eugène 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.


Dyer has been writing abo...