PING PONG [Dyer & Iyer — signed by Dyer]

Hardcover, silk screened cover custom side-stapled. 40 illustrations, texts by Geoff Dyer & Pico Iyer, design by Hans Seeger. This copy is # 813 and SIGNED by Geoff Dyer. “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.”