Geoff Dyer — The Ongoing Moment

New York: Random House Inc. Reissue, first printing. 285 pp., 20,5 x 13,5. Condition: As New. Very nice clean copy, First Vintage Books edition. In The Ongoing Moment, award-winning writer Geoff Dyer constructs a kaleidoscopic narrative exploring how canonical figures in the history of photography—including Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston—have photographed the same everyday subjects such as barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs. By identifying their distinct signature styles, Dyer seeks to reveal how these photographers, many of whom never met, constantly encounter one another in the shared visual language of the moment. The work is described as a narrative of intensely felt and observed moments, offering an ingenious journey through the history of photography with extraordinary originality and insight.