My thanks to both NetGalley and Graywolf Press for an advanced copy of this work.

Geoff Dyer draws on both his artistic sensibilities and his writing ability in his latest collection of essays See/Saw: Looking at Photographs 2010-2020. Mr. Dyer has chosen photographs from a a variety of skilled and unskilled photographers and eras. Along with the photo is an accompanying essay about what is seen, not seen, what the artist might have been trying to achieve, and what the results are to him. There are no right or wrong interpretations, Mr. Dyer only writes what he sees and feels, while giving a history of the photographer, a brief history of the photo and what might have lead to the photo being taken at that time. Some essays are straightforward, others go to places that only a skilled writer with knowledge both or art and history could go, expounding on things that would escape just a casual, or even a long study of the picture.

Not really criticism, not really a review. These essays are something more. Mr. Dyer one of my favorite authors who I first started reading wit his book on jazz But Beautiful, has a way of making something simple, grand and worthy of conversation and contemplation. A very sublime work.