John Berger is a novelist, poet, screenwriter, and critic. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including To the Wedding, About Looking, and G., for which he was awarded the Booker Prize. Among his best-known works is the television series and book Ways of Seeing. He has received prestigious awards for his writing, including the Petrarca-Preis and a Golden PEN Award. Geoff Dyer is the author of a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling, and a critically acclaimed book on photography, The Ongoing Moment. He also has written four novels, and five genre-defying books, which include But Beautiful, awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize.
This is a series of Berger's essays, arranged chronologically,
about photography's role in the shaping of society. -American
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This new selection of more than 20 essays, edited by Geoff Dyer and
including previously uncollected pieces, is essential reading for
anyone interested in understanding the power of this ubiquitous
medium. Spanning some 40 years, they include pieces on the 1967
photograph of Che Guevara's corpse, on the meaning of
photographs...on the shock effect of war images... There are also
typically insightful pieces on Paul Strand, W. Eugene Smith, André
Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson... As ever with Berger's writing,
the theoretical is always informed by politics and a deeply felt
humanity. -The Guardian
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