May 6th: Geoff Dyer in conversation with Teju Cole

Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Geoff Dyer will discuss his book See/Saw: Looking at Photographs with Teju Cole.

The live event* will stream directly on this page on Thursday, May 6th at 6pm EST. There is no login or rsvp required.
*Please note: this event will not be archived and will only be available on May 6th at 6 PM ET.

Geoff Dyer — See/Saw: Looking at Photographs (Graywolf Press, 2021)

See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day—including artists such as Eugène Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb—the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images.

Dyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment, and heir to Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag’s On Photography, and John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph, See/Saw shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.

Geoff Dyer is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of Southern California.

Teju Cole is a writer and photographer. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019, and currently teaches at Harvard University.