In his most recent book Yoga for People Who Cant Be Bothered to Do It GeoffDyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of histravels but... » 

In his most recent book Yoga for People Who Cant Be Bothered to Do It GeoffDyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of histravels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perversityand trademark originalityDyer has now come up with an idiosyncratichistory of . . . photography. Seeking to identify their signature stylesDyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred StieglitzPaul Strand Walker Evans Andre Kertesz Edward Weston Dorothea Lange DianeArbus and William Eggleston among others have photographed the same thingsbarber shops benches hands roads and signs for example. In doing so heconstructs a narrative in which these photographersmany of whom never metconstantly encounter one another. Great photographs change the way we seethe world The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. It is the mostambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own thenonfiction work of art. From the Hardcover edition. «