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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
49.99 AUD
Category: Photography
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
24.99 AUD
Category: Photography
An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're virtually extinct'. It is a small world in Brixton that Dyer commemorates, of council flat and instant wastel ...Show more
The Contest of the Century - The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
39.99 AUD
Category: History
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 begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new na ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (HB) by Geoff Dyer
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily Telegraph. Much attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter wit ...Show more
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. ...Show more
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs by Geoff Dyer
24.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the w ...Show more
The Search by Geoff Dyer
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. So begins this strange, beautiful, road-movie of a novel that takes the hero across the vast landscape o ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
19.99 AUD
24.99 (20% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
Working The Room - Essays and Reviews - 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music.Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more pers ...Show more