{"product_id":"the-ongoing-moment-9780375422157","title":"The Ongoing Moment","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his most recent book  Yoga for People Who Cant Be Bothered to Do It  Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sityand trademark originalityDyer has now come up with an idiosyncratic history of . . . photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles  Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz  Paul Strand  Walker Evans  Andr Kertsz  Edward Weston  Dorothea Lange  Diane Arbus  and William Eggleston  among others  have photographed the same things (barber shops  benches  hands  roads  and signs  for example). In doing so  he constructs a narrative in which these photographersmany of whom never metconstantly encounter one another.  Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the nonfiction work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647970828341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375422153","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375422157.jpg?v=1781700066","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ongoing-moment-9780375422157","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}