See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.

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.

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.