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Geoff Dyer / Pico Iyer - Ping Pong, Little Brown Mushroom, 2013, St. Paul/Minnesota

 

“Ping-pong is a life style, a training in attention, a diversion, a mad passion and a way of not taking anything important too seriously and taking some tiny things much too seriously.” – Pico Iyer

“Ideally, the last picture in this book would show me pumping my fist in brutish victory.” – Geoff Dyer

For several years, Alec Soth has combined his passion for both table tennis and photography by collecting vernacular ping-pong photographs. With this publication, Soth asked Geoff Dyer and Pico Iyer, writers and fellow table tennis enthusiasts, to respond to these pictures by engaging in a kind of literary ping-pong match.

Hardcover, silk screened cover custom side-stapled, ddition of 1,000 copies. 40 illustrations, text by Geoff Dyer, Pico Iyer, design by Hans Seeger.

Pages: 44
Place: St. Paul/Minnesota
Year: 2013
Publisher: Little Brown Mushroom
Size: 17 x 20 cm (approx.)







 Geoff & Iyer Dyer - Ping Pong (Front)

Geoff & Iyer Dyer - Ping Pong (Front)

 Geoff & Iyer Dyer - Ping Pong (Spine)

Geoff & Iyer Dyer - Ping Pong (Spine)

 Geoff & Iyer Dyer - Ping Pong (Back)

Geoff & Iyer Dyer - Ping Pong (Back)




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“Ping-pong is a life style, a training in attention, a diversion, a mad passion and a way of not taking anything important too seriously and taking some tiny things much too seriously.” – Pico Iyer

“Ideally, the last picture in this book would show me pumping my fist in brutish victory.” – Geoff Dyer

For several years, Alec Soth has combined his passion for both table tennis and photography by collecting vernacular ping-pong photographs. With this publication, Soth asked Geoff Dyer and Pico Iyer, writers and fellow table tennis enthusiasts, to respond to these pictures by engaging in a kind of literary ping-pong match.

Hardcover, silk screened cover custom side-stapled, ddition of 1,000 copies. 40 illustrations, text by Geoff Dyer, Pico Iyer, design by Hans Seeger.

Pages: 44
Place: St. Paul/Minnesota
Year: 2013
Publisher: Little Brown Mushroom
Size: 17 x 20 cm (approx.)