See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

Dyer looking hard at photographs, mostly one at a time, mostly for a few pages each. Eugène Atget’s empty Paris streets, Dorothea Lange, Roy DeCarava, Vivian Maier, Alex Webb, Gary Winogrand, plus a long stretch on his own preoccupations — benches, hats, people asleep, the moment just before or after the thing you’d expect a photographer to shoot. He’s funny and digressive, doesn’t do theory, and mostly asks what’s happening in the frame and what happened a second later. Reading it will slow you down in front of a picture, which is the whole service.