See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

See/Saw 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.Following Dyer's previous books on photography The Ongoing Moment and The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand See/Saw 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.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.