The Ongoing Moment - Kenz

In Geoff Dyer's novel The Ongoing Moment, he analyzes different photographers searching for their signature styles seen in their photographs. From the vantage point of the viewer, Dyer relates the caped figure to other similar figures in other photographs by other photographers such as Paul Strand, André Kertész and Steven Schapiro. This is the professed aim of the book: to look at how different people photographed the same thing. And not only anonymous figures, but hats, streets, doors, fences, steps, desert roads, girlfriends and blind people. He sees so many correlations that he begins to suspect “a strange rule in photography, namely that we never see the last of anyone or anything”.