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A lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition 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…

Garry Winogrand―along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander―was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each image accompanied by an original essay. Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the…

From the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversary A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: an analysis taking us from its snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. For those who have not even seen Where Eagles Dare, this book is a comic…

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' by Geoff Dyer, read by Roy McMillan. From the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversary. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: an analysis taking us from its snowy, Teutonic opening…

В книге «Самое время» Джефф Дайер предлагает неклассический - нехронологический и нелинейный - взгляд на историю фотографии. Это попытка классификации и систематизации заведомо необъятного материала, при том что используемые критерии заведомо необъективны. Сам Дайер признает, что большего всего его работа похожа на «одну китайскую энциклопедию» Борхеса. Несмотря на всю импрессионистичность подхода, на первый взгляд кажущиеся разрозненными фрагменты на деле складываются в серьезное и всеобъемлющее исследование. Дайер изучает фотографии и обнаруживающиеся в них сквозные мотивы, находит тончайшие аллюзии и, кропотливо распутывая клубок, в…

From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for "something better," continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages--with a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at the Forbidden City in Beijing, with friends at the Lightning Field in New Mexico, with a hitchhiker picked up near a prison at White Sands, and with "a dream of how things should have been" at…

In this spellbinding new book, the man described by the "Daily Telegraph" as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Like the film "Stalker" itself, it confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of life and how to live.

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. Yet he also shows why China may struggle to unseat the West - its ambitious designs are provoking anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global alliances have deep roots. If Washington can adjust to a world in which it is not the sole dominant power, it may be able to retain its ability to set the global agenda.

Описание: From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers.  As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer’s experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of “carrier-world,” from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the…

There is no other writer at work today like the award-winning Geoff Dyer. Here he embarks on an investigation into Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, the masterpiece of cinema that has haunted him since he first saw it thirty years ago.

*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible…

Geoff Dyer’s classic The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, he examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.

Действие свежего, эклектичного и дерзкого романа Джеффа Дайера "Влюбиться в Венеции, умереть в Варанаси" разворачивается в двух разных городах - гедонистической Венеции и иррациональном Варанаси. По сути, это отдельные новеллы, тонко связанные между собой почти невидимыми нитями. Два английских журналиста сорока с лишним лет пребывают в поисках любви и экзистенциального смысла. Оба так или иначе находят искомое. Оба шокируют своей откровенностью. Этот изысканный и ни на что не похожий роман, исследующий темы любви, отношений между полами, искусства, смерти и духовности, подтверждает репутацию Дайера как одного из самых одаренных и…

Журналист Джефф Атман приезжает на открытие венецианского биеннале. Он рассчитывает увидеть там искусство во всех видах, побывать на массе вечеринок и выпить целое море беллини, но вместо этого встречает обворожительную американку Лору, которая превращает эти несколько суток в Венеции в сплошное сияние.
Другой город, другое задание - на этот раз на берегах Ганга в Варанаси. Среди гхатов, кремаций и хаоса этого священного для всех индусов города таятся опыт и переживания совсем иного рода.

Действие свежего, эклектичного и дерзкого романа Джеффа Дайера "Влюбиться в Венеции, умереть в Варанаси" разворачивается в двух разных городах - гедонистической Венеции и иррациональном Варанаси. По сути, это отдельные новеллы, тонко связанные между собой почти невидимыми нитями. Два английских журналиста сорока с лишним лет пребывают в поисках любви и экзистенциального смысла. Оба так или иначе находят искомое. Оба шокируют своей откровенностью. Этот изысканный и ни на что не похожий роман, исследующий темы любви, отношений между полами, искусства, смерти и духовности, подтверждает репутацию Дайера как одного из самых одаренных и…

"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book." -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to…

A "New York Times "Notable Book A Best Book of the Year: "The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, "and"Time" In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a few days but ends up remaining for months. Their journey--as only the irrepressibly entertaining Geoff Dyer could conjure--makes for an uproarious, fiendishly inventive novel of Italy and India, longing and lust,…

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In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t 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-sity—and