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A wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from Winogrand's vast archive, with responses to the photographs that are unorthodox, funny and eye-opening. * University of Arizona News * A truly fascinating read. * Tucson Weekly * Dyer's riffs are both playful and illuminating, and will make you look anew at the work of a man who once said: I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it. As this book reminds us, it isn't. * The Guardian * An amazing tome of street-style photographs from the legendary documentarian's 1960s to 1980s archives. * Town Country *

An amazing tome of street-style photographs from the legendary documentarian's 1960s to 1980s archives. * Town Country *

When I next want to recall instantly why Winogrand is essential, an exemplar of what photography can disclose about reality and our secret, public selves, Dyer's will be the first book I reach for. * New York Review of Books * Handsomely designed. . . Dyer provides entertaining commentary for each photo, coaxing possible meanings from the anonymous individuals caught by Winogrand in moments of time. * Milwaukee Shepherd Express * Dyer and Winogrand co-exist effortlessly, both frenetically productive cranks with commitment issues, whether in theme or form. At its best moments, Street Philosophy embraces the undirected, and uncaring, genius of both its writer and its subject- In spite-and because of what's going on, it's impossible to tell what's going on, Dyer writes at one point-and the book is better for it. * Pacific Standard * A luxurious meditation on the many ways in which the photographer's remarkable images work. . . there is no one quite as well matched to give voice to Winogrand's work as Dyer does in this exquisitely layered and thoughtful book. * Huck * A wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from Winogrand's vast archive, with responses to the photographs that are unorthodox, funny and eye-opening. * University of Arizona News * A truly fascinating read. * Tucson Weekly * Dyer's riffs are both playful and illuminating, and will make you look anew at the work of a man who once said: I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it. As this book reminds us, it isn't. * The Guardian * An amazing tome of street-style photographs from the legendary documentarian's 1960s to 1980s archives. * Town Country * Physically imposing and visually sumptuous. * New York Times, Editor's Choice * Geoff Dyer writes books that are easy to enjoy but hard to pin down. . . [His] refusal to be hemmed in (not to mention the cheerful indifference to his own best-laid plans) is what makes Dyer the ideal partner for Winogrand, who hated the term street photography even as his name became synonymous with it. * New York Times *

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Geoff Dyer's many books include The Ongoing Moment (winner of the International Center of Photography's prestigious Infinity Award for Writing/Criticism), But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize), Out of Sheer Rage (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award), The Missing of the Somme, the novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award). His latest book is White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize and, most recently, the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction, Dyer is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Dyer is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California.

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