A review by keight
Blind Spot by Teju Cole

4.0

I was especially curious about this book after reading Known and Strange Things as the last essay there is also called “Blind Spot.” That one is about Teju Cole’s sudden loss of vision while he was attending an artists’ residency. This book version doesn’t seem directly related right away, as it contains around 150 of photographs from his travels around the world accompanied by vignettes. But Cole doesn’t just connect this book to the previous essay, but rather all of his works, calling them “a quartet about the limits of vision.” Now I’m curious to go back to his first book Open City with that perspective. Read more on my booklog