How Photography Invents the World
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Join the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment and "national treasure" (Zadie Smith) for an illuminated 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—Dyer will show 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.
He says: “You take photographs in order to document things and these documents then acquire a quality of elegy. What is extraordinary is the speed with which this happens, the brevity of the "then." As soon as the images emerge in the developing tray—even, conceivably, the moment the shutter is clicked—they are imbued with how they will be seen in the future. (Now, of course, the process itself has an elegiac quality too.)”
Don’t miss this chance to encounter a critical mind of the first order as he explores the definitive art form of our age.
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