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Noticing Geoff Dyer, one of the world's great noticers – The Forward

Noticing Geoff Dyer, one of the world's great noticers – The Forward
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Geoff Dyer follows in the footsteps of John Berger, Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes


Geoff Dyer
Review by David Pratt
Back in a bygone day before entering journalism via documentary photography, I taught art history and critical studies at Glasgow School of Art. Even before then, during my student days at the school, I was a devoted follower of the art critic, painter, and novelist John Berger. His book, Ways of Seeing, was a virtual bible for a generation of art students and those teaching in art schools.
In part inspired by the thinking that underpins the book, I used to set my students an exercise by asking them to bring with them a selection of picture postcards. Many were of the typical holiday type commonly posted in those pre-internet days. Seascapes, landscapes, city scenes, portraits, monuments; others were more human in their imagery – comic or political. ....

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Geoff Dyer: 'Certain pictures strike me – why is this working on me so powerfully?'


 
Geoff Dyer is telling me about his Covid-19 vaccination. “About two or three weeks ago, suddenly the whole vaccine thing exploded, and I was inundated. It was like when I used to get invited to literary festivals – suddenly I was inundated with invitations to have a vaccine!”
Dyer has just published his third photography book, See/Saw: Looking at Photographs (after The Ongoing Moment and The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand).  Reading this book is, simply put, a pleasurable experience, recalling Wilde’s image of the critic as artist. In writing criticism, I ask, is it important for him to achieve an aesthetic quality? ....

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