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On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes / Alexandra Horowitz.

by Horowitz, Alexandra.

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Scribner, 2013.

Participant observation.

Observation (Psychology)

Alternate title:

Eleven walks with expert eyes

11 walks with expert eyes

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

vii, 308 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index.

Shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary - to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." On Looking is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer.

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