John berger

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Ways of seeing by john berger

John Berger (1926-2017), 1959

Berger, now 90, has changed his life so radically and so often because he cannot bear idle conversation

"The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the Earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge the explanation never quite fits the sight." John Berger (1926-2017) #wisdom #art #howtosee #philosophy #instituteofartandideas

Ben Lerner on the writer and critic John Berger, who died earlier this week, at the age of ninety.

John Berger - My Heart, Brief as Photos

‘The photographer’s way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject. The painter’s way of seeing is reconstituted by the marks he makes on the canvas or paper. Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing […] the more imaginative the work, the more profoundly it allows us to share the artist’s experience of the visible.’

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness. The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer, author of the award-winning The…