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Geoff Dyer first became interested in photography not by looking at photographs but by reading about other people looking at them. That meant the holy trinity of seers: Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and John Berger. For Dyer, the most inspirational of these three was Berger, about whom he wrote his first book,
Ways of Telling, 35 years ago, and from whom he learned his habits as a critic â always letting the evidence of his eyes have precedence over theory, and bringing what psychologists like to call âhis whole selfâ to the task at hand. In Bergerâs writing, that had invariably meant something soulful and learned, almost sculptural in intent. Dyerâs sensibility is more fleeting and alive to comic ironies; his writing dramatises both a restless attention, and the moments it is stopped in its tracks. He shares with his mentor, however, that autodidactâs sense of bringing his singular frame of reference to bear on a singular f