See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

Geoff Dyer has been writing about looking at photographs throughout his celebrated career, and See/Saw gathers the best of his lively criticism from the last decade. Taking in photographers from the nineteenth century to the present day-including Eugene Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb-Dyer offers a series of moving, prescient, surprising, and intimate readings of images. This tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair is at once erudite and inviting, sparkling wit...