Geoff Dyer

Writer

English writer known for essays and books on jazz and photography, including But Beautiful and other works of literary non-fiction.

Born 1958; English author noted for mixing literary criticism, travel writing and essays on music and photography.

Marco Salzano praises Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful for finding the Barthesian punctum in jazz photographs and reconstructing musicians' lives through vivid, improvised portraits. The review highlights Dyer's ability to 'listen' to photographs and his deep knowledge of jazz figures. Salzano calls the book a successful and fascinating operation.

For:Readers interested in jazz, photography criticism, literary essays and portraiture

It is precisely the Barthesian punctum that the Englishman Geoff Dyer grasps in the photos of some giants of modern Jazz to construct the series of portraits in “But Beautiful” – Instar Books, 1993.
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