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Leni
The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Written by Steven Bach
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38775-2 (0-307-38775-5)
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know... Read more >
The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Written by Steven Bach
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38775-2 (0-307-38775-5)
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know... Read more >
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The Surrealist Picasso
Written by Anne Baldassari
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Flammarion
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-2-08-030509-1 (2-08-030509-3)
Between 1924 and 1934, Picasso's oeuvre developed dramatically. During this decade, the artist maintained a complex relationship with the burgeoning and hugely influential Surrealist movement. Eventually, he diverted from Surrealism to form a variant known as Supra-realism. This volume presents an integrated analysis of the whole of Picasso's artistic creation during... Read more >
Written by Anne Baldassari
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Flammarion
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-2-08-030509-1 (2-08-030509-3)
Between 1924 and 1934, Picasso's oeuvre developed dramatically. During this decade, the artist maintained a complex relationship with the burgeoning and hugely influential Surrealist movement. Eventually, he diverted from Surrealism to form a variant known as Supra-realism. This volume presents an integrated analysis of the whole of Picasso's artistic creation during... Read more >
The Unexpurgated Beaton
The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
Written by Cecil Beaton
Introduction by Hugo Vickers
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4112-1 (1-4000-4112-0)
Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and... Read more >
The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
Written by Cecil Beaton
Introduction by Hugo Vickers
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4112-1 (1-4000-4112-0)
Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and... Read more >
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About Looking
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73655-4 (0-679-73655-7)
Berger explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast, all but lost in the 20th century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73655-4 (0-679-73655-7)
Berger explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast, all but lost in the 20th century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles... Read more >
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73656-1 (0-679-73656-5)
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73656-1 (0-679-73656-5)
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing... Read more >
Another Way of Telling
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 7, 1995
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73724-7 (0-679-73724-3)
As constructed by John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual, offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our most straightforward art form. This theory includes images as well as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 7, 1995
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73724-7 (0-679-73724-3)
As constructed by John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual, offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our most straightforward art form. This theory includes images as well as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and... Read more >
Art and Revolution
Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 17, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73727-8 (0-679-73727-8)
In this prescient and beautifully written book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very public vision of art. But Berger's impassioned account goes well... Read more >
Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 17, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73727-8 (0-679-73727-8)
In this prescient and beautifully written book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very public vision of art. But Berger's impassioned account goes well... Read more >
Keeping a Rendezvous
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73714-8 (0-679-73714-6)
When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous we are given to see the world as Berger sees it--to explore themes suggested by the work... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73714-8 (0-679-73714-6)
When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous we are given to see the world as Berger sees it--to explore themes suggested by the work... Read more >
Selected Essays of John Berger
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71318-7 (0-375-71318-2)
The writing career of John Berger—poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist—has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible to... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71318-7 (0-375-71318-2)
The writing career of John Berger—poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist—has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible to... Read more >
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Sense of Sight
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73722-3 (0-679-73722-7)
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. When Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Leger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73722-3 (0-679-73722-7)
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. When Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Leger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the... Read more >
The Shape of a Pocket
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71888-5 (0-375-71888-5)
“The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71888-5 (0-375-71888-5)
“The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave... Read more >
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The Success and Failure of Picasso
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73725-4 (0-679-73725-1)
In this stunning critical assessment, Berger focuses upon the most prodigious and enigmatic painter of the Spanish landscape and the very particular culture that shaped Picasso's life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73725-4 (0-679-73725-1)
In this stunning critical assessment, Berger focuses upon the most prodigious and enigmatic painter of the Spanish landscape and the very particular culture that shaped Picasso's life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger... Read more >
A Kind of Rapture
Written by Robert Bergman
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-44257-8 (0-679-44257-X)
For more than 10 years, Robert Bergman traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. A Kind of Rapture brings together the first selection from Bergman’s... Read more >
Written by Robert Bergman
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-44257-8 (0-679-44257-X)
For more than 10 years, Robert Bergman traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. A Kind of Rapture brings together the first selection from Bergman’s... Read more >
Freud at Work
Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Written by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26600-2 (0-307-26600-1)
Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated—and most private—artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with undiminished energy and discipline.
In 120 revealing black-and-white and color photographs taken in Lucian Freud’s London studio, and in a... Read more >
Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Written by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26600-2 (0-307-26600-1)
Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated—and most private—artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with undiminished energy and discipline.
In 120 revealing black-and-white and color photographs taken in Lucian Freud’s London studio, and in a... Read more >
Old Man Goya
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70579-3 (0-375-70579-1)
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For Criticism
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thirty-five years in a world emptied of sound... Read more >
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70579-3 (0-375-70579-1)
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For Criticism
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thirty-five years in a world emptied of sound... Read more >
Who Shot Rock and Roll
A Photographic History, 1955-Present
Written by Gail Buckland
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27016-0 (0-307-27016-5)
More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual, luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll; the first book to explore the photographs and the photographers who captured rock’s message of freedom and personal reinvention—and to examine the... Read more >
A Photographic History, 1955-Present
Written by Gail Buckland
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27016-0 (0-307-27016-5)
More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual, luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll; the first book to explore the photographs and the photographers who captured rock’s message of freedom and personal reinvention—and to examine the... Read more >
Lee Miller
A Life
Written by Carolyn Burke
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40147-3 (0-375-40147-4)
A thorough and astute exploration of the life and work of model/photographer Lee Miller, one of the iconic faces—and careers—of the mid-twentieth century. Carolyn Burke reclaims this world-class photographer as an important—albeit controversial—figure, renowned not only for her incredible beauty but also for her many talents.
Burke reveals Lee Miller as a... Read more >
A Life
Written by Carolyn Burke
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40147-3 (0-375-40147-4)
A thorough and astute exploration of the life and work of model/photographer Lee Miller, one of the iconic faces—and careers—of the mid-twentieth century. Carolyn Burke reclaims this world-class photographer as an important—albeit controversial—figure, renowned not only for her incredible beauty but also for her many talents.
Burke reveals Lee Miller as a... Read more >
Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26766-5 (0-307-26766-0)
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26766-5 (0-307-26766-0)
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
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Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael Casey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27930-9 (0-307-27930-8)
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael Casey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27930-9 (0-307-27930-8)
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
Dark Water
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2649-2 (0-7679-2649-8)
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2649-2 (0-7679-2649-8)
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
The Cave Painters
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7887-5 (1-4000-7887-3)
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon... Read more >
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7887-5 (1-4000-7887-3)
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon... Read more >
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Disarmed
The Story of the Venus de Milo
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3133-7 (1-4000-3133-8)
In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually... Read more >
The Story of the Venus de Milo
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3133-7 (1-4000-3133-8)
In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually... Read more >
The Birth of Venus
A Novel
Written by Sarah Dunant
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 30, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6897-2 (0-8129-6897-2)
2005 BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, ADULT NON-FICTION
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Sarah Dunant
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 30, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6897-2 (0-8129-6897-2)
2005 BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, ADULT NON-FICTION
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a... Read more >
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The Ongoing Moment
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3168-9 (1-4000-3168-0)
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.
Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3168-9 (1-4000-3168-0)
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.
Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops... Read more >
The Ongoing Moment
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $28.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42215-7 (0-375-42215-3)
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perversity—and trademark originality—Dyer has now come up with... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $28.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42215-7 (0-375-42215-3)
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perversity—and trademark originality—Dyer has now come up with... Read more >
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