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Otherwise known as the human condition : selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010 /

By: Dyer, Geoff.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2011Description: xii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1555975798; 9781555975791.Subject(s): Essays | Criticism | English literature -- 21st century -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 824.914 DYE
Contents:
Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India -- Robert Capa -- If I die in a combat zone -- Ruth Orkin's V-E Day -- Richard Avedon -- Enrique Metinides -- Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions -- Alec Soth : Riverrun -- Richard Misrach -- William Gedney -- Michael Ackerman -- Miroslav Tichy -- Saving Grace : Todd Hido -- Idris Kahn -- Edward Burtynsky -- Turner and memory -- The American sublime -- The awakening of stones : Rodin -- Ecce homo -- D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- Pounding print -- Richard Ford : Independence day -- James Salter : The hunters and Light years -- Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke -- Ian McEwan : Atonement -- Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs -- Don DeLillo : Point omega -- The Goncourt journals -- Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon -- John Cheever : The journals -- Ryszard Kapuscinski's African life -- W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard -- Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag -- The moral art of war -- "My favorite things" -- Ramamani -- Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity -- Editions of contemporary me -- Is jazz dead? -- Cherry Street -- Blues for Vincent -- Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria -- Oradour-sur-Glane -- Parting shots -- The wrong stuff -- Fabulous clothes -- The 2004 Olympics -- Sex and hotels -- What will survive of us -- The airfix generation -- Comics in a man's life -- Violets of pride -- On being an only child -- Sacked -- On the roof -- Unpacking my library -- Reader's block -- My life as a gate-crasher -- Something didn't happen -- Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts) -- Of course.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-420).

Visuals. Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India -- Robert Capa -- If I die in a combat zone -- Ruth Orkin's V-E Day -- Richard Avedon -- Enrique Metinides -- Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions -- Alec Soth : Riverrun -- Richard Misrach -- William Gedney -- Michael Ackerman -- Miroslav Tichy -- Saving Grace : Todd Hido -- Idris Kahn -- Edward Burtynsky -- Turner and memory -- The American sublime -- The awakening of stones : Rodin -- Ecce homo -- Verbals. D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- Pounding print -- Richard Ford : Independence day -- James Salter : The hunters and Light years -- Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke -- Ian McEwan : Atonement -- Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs -- Don DeLillo : Point omega -- The Goncourt journals -- Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon -- John Cheever : The journals -- Ryszard Kapuscinski's African life -- W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard -- Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag -- The moral art of war -- Musicals. "My favorite things" -- Ramamani -- Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity -- Editions of contemporary me -- Is jazz dead? -- Cherry Street -- Variables. Blues for Vincent -- Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria -- Oradour-sur-Glane -- Parting shots -- The wrong stuff -- Fabulous clothes -- The 2004 Olympics -- Sex and hotels -- What will survive of us -- Personals. The airfix generation -- Comics in a man's life -- Violets of pride -- On being an only child -- Sacked -- On the roof -- Unpacking my library -- Reader's block -- My life as a gate-crasher -- Something didn't happen -- Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts) -- Of course.

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