See/saw Av Geoff Dyer

<p><i>See/Saw </i>is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.<br><br>Following Dyer's previous books on photography, <i>The Ongoing Moment</i> and <i>The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand</i>, <i>See/Saw</i> brilliantly combines visual scrutiny and stylistic flair. It shows us how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, and reveals a master seer at work.<br><br>In the spirit of the intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh.</p>