Considering the way images are indexed in the current exhibition, Image Search: Photography from the Collection, PAMM and The Miami Rail select The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer as the Winter Reading Art book. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same things – barbershops, benches, hands, roads, signs – Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers – many of whom never met – constantly encounter one another.

-11am Book discussion on the terrace (participants receive 10% discount at Verde Coffee Bar)

-12pm Tour of Image Search: Photography from the Collection led by PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi

The Ongoing Moment is available for sale at the PAMM Shop.

“Truly original… A whole narrative of intensely felt and observed moments… After reading it, life seems larger.” John Berger, Harper’s Magazine

Picture Credit: Lee Friedlander, “Storefront News Stand,” circa 1962
Gelatin silver print.
5-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, promised gift of Charles Cowles
© Lee Friedlander. Courtesy Janet Borden, Inc., New York