The ongoing moment

R$ 95,90

Sinopse

Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes and objects (benches, hats, hands, roads). In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers ? many of whom never met in their lives ? constantly come into contact with each other. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.

Participantes

Autor: Geoff Dyer

Autor

GEOFF DYER

O jornalista e escritor Geoff Dyer nasceu em 1958, em Cheltenham, na Inglaterra. Conhecido pelo estilo irônico, quase debochado, Dyer parte de reflexões íntimas para discutir temas universais, numa mistura sutil de ficção e não ficção. Autor, entre outros, do romance Jeff em Veneza, Morte em Varanasi, publicado no Brasil em 2010, Dyer remete ao chamado ensaio pessoal, estilo que permeia todas as suas obras, dos artigos sobre viagens (reunidos em Ioga para quem não está nem aí, 2007) à miscelânea de textos curtos de Otherwise known as the human condition (2011).