See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer review – how to really read a picture
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 â always letting the evidence of his eyes have precedence over theory, and bringing what psychologists like to call âhis whole selfâ to the task at hand. In Bergerâ...
Source: theguardian.com