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And this, 2021: BREAKING: At @SEIUHCMN informational picket outside Mercy Hospital, HCMN announces they’re filing a 10-day notice of intent to strike. Victory to the @AllinaHealth workers preparing to strike! MN Workers United stands ready to support. pic.twitter.com/ttddmxBpas The great John Berger (see NC here) commented on Sanders’ photo in his famous essay, “The Suit and the Photograph”: Now make an experiment. Block out the faces … with a piece of paper, and consider only their clothed bodies. By no stretch of the imagination can you believe that these bodies belong to the mi...

Geoff Dyer Shows How Modern Culture Shaped Photography The author’s latest book, See/Saw: Looking at Photographs, condenses over 100 years of history into selected moments In his introduction to The Ongoing Moment (2005), Geoff Dyer fulsomely admits he doesn’t own a camera, before cheerfully embarking upon a masterful essay comparing the great photographs of the American Century. As someone who has spent the last four years writing a novel about a dead photographer while knowing nothing about the technical aspects of the medium, I found this admission a massive morale ...

Mon 19 Apr 2021 02.00 EDT Geoff Dyer first became interested in photography not by looking at photographs but by reading about other people looking at them. That meant the holy trinity of seers: Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and John Berger. For Dyer, the most inspirational of these three was Berger, about whom he wrote his first book, Ways of Telling, 35 years ago, and from whom he learned his habits as a critic – always letting the evidence of his eyes have precedence over theory, and bringing what psychologists like to call “his whole self” to the task at hand. In Bergerâ�...

'The Guide' by John Myers published by RRB Photobooks The Guide, John Myers. Softcover | 248mm x 285.2mm |116 pages | ISBN 9781916057579 LONDON .-The Guide combines some of the best-loved photographs from John Myers career with his unique and wry prose on the method and theory of his work. The photographs in the book are some of most familiar images from The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked and The End of Industry alongside five previously unpublished works. The images are published alongside insights to the circumstances behind the pictures, influences and Myer’s working practice, drawi...

See/Saw, Looking at Photographs, Geoff Dyer, Canongate, 336pp, £25 (hb) The critic Geoff Dyer turns his erudite eye on some of the most important photographers of the past 150 years in his latest collection of essays, being published in April. Dyer follows in the footsteps of John Berger and Susan Sontag with this guide on how to “read a photograph”, decoding and deciphering images by August Sander, Dayanita Singh, William Eggleston and Vivian Maier, among others. In his analysis of Maier, Dyer says that “the discovery-lag [of her works posthumously] means that Maier’s work h...