Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including The Last Days of Roger Federer, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Zona, See/Saw, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.

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OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE HUMAN CONDITION

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Contents

List of Illustrations..............................................................................................xiIntroduction.......................................................................................................3Jacques Henri Lartigue and the Discovery of India..................................................................9Robert Capa........................................................................................................12If I Die in a Combat Zone..........................................................................................15Ruth Orkin's V-E Day...............................................................................................20Richard Avedon.....................................................................................................25Enrique Metinides..................................................................................................31Joel Sternfeld's Utopian Visions...................................................................................36Alec Soth: Riverrun................................................................................................40Richard Misrach....................................................................................................44William Gedney.....................................................................................................51Michael Ackerman...................................................................................................67Miroslav Tichý................................................................................................71Saving Grace: Todd Hido............................................................................................78Idris Khan.........................................................................................................82Edward Burtynsky...................................................................................................87Turner and Memory..................................................................................................91The American Sublime...............................................................................................95The Awakening of Stones: Rodin.....................................................................................100Ecce Homo..........................................................................................................113D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers....................................................................................123F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned......................................................................129F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night...........................................................................137Pounding Print.....................................................................................................146Richard Ford: Independence Day.....................................................................................150James Salter: The Hunters and Light Years..........................................................................156Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke.......................................................................................162Ian McEwan: Atonement..............................................................................................166Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs.................................................................................170Don DeLillo: Point Omega...........................................................................................173The Goncourt Journals..............................................................................................177Rebecca West: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...........................................................................184John Cheever: The Journals.........................................................................................193Ryszard Kapuscinski's African Life.................................................................................200W. G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard.........................................................................205Regarding the Achievement of Others: Susan Sontag..................................................................212The Moral Art of War...............................................................................................215"My Favorite Things"...............................................................................................231Ramamani...........................................................................................................236Def Leppard and the Anthropology of Supermodernity.................................................................239Editions of Contemporary Me........................................................................................245Is Jazz Dead?......................................................................................................252Cherry Street......................................................................................................264Blues for Vincent..................................................................................................269Loving and Admiring: Camus's Algeria...............................................................................272Oradour-sur-Glane..................................................................................................280Parting Shots......................................................................................................286The Wrong Stuff....................................................................................................291Fabulous Clothes...................................................................................................300The 2004 Olympics..................................................................................................308Sex and Hotels.....................................................................................................315What Will Survive of Us............................................................................................319The Airfix Generation..............................................................................................327Comics in a Man's Life.............................................................................................333Violets of Pride...................................................................................................341On Being an Only Child.............................................................................................346Sacked.............................................................................................................356On the Roof........................................................................................................367Unpacking My Library...............................................................................................374Reader's Block.....................................................................................................378My Life as a Gate-Crasher..........................................................................................382Something Didn't Happen............................................................................................386Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with particular reference to Doughnut Plant...