The Ongoing Moment
Geoff Dyer · 2005
Dyer follows recurring images across photography's history. A book about seeing that changes how you see.
The case against
Dyer organizes a history of photography by free association: hats, benches, blind accordionists, gas stations, whatever catches his drift. When it works the connections spark; when it doesn't you are watching a man enjoy his own digressions. His canon is also almost entirely American, so whole continents of the medium simply never come up.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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