Tag Archives: John Berger

O’Sullivan & Adams

November 23, 2012

“We know, as we recognize the commonness of places, that this is our world and the the photographer has not cheated on his way to his affirmation of meaning.” — Robert Adams, “In The Nineteenth-Century West”, Why People Photograph Photograph: Timothy O’Sullivan, Sand Dunes,… Continue reading →

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Berger on the narrative gap

November 23, 2012

“Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense of that life, the empty space, the gap is enormous. The desolation lies, lies there, not… Continue reading →

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Azoulay on Citizenship & Photography

September 16, 2012
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Hampl on Looking

September 16, 2012

“[My father] liked to look across the river, watch for Canada geese rising in formation over the great flyway. He appreciated a muddle of pastel light and mist across the wide water. He knew how to bow his head to… Continue reading →

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Horsfield on Art

May 25, 2012

“Art, whilst it may be many things, may also be this: an accounting to others of the world which we together inhabit, to the end not that we escape history, but that we together may stand face to face with… Continue reading →

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Berger on The Suit and the Photograph

May 25, 2012

“The suit, as we know it today, developed in Europe as a professional ruling-class costume in the last third of the 19th century. Almost anonymous as a uniform, it was the first ruling-class costume to idealise purely sedentary power. The… Continue reading →

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Berger on poetry

April 6, 2012

“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known. Poems, regardless of any outcome,… Continue reading →

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One off: Irina Rozovsky.

April 6, 2012

Untitled, from One to Nothing by Irina Rozovsky. “All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on… Continue reading →

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Berger on simultaneity

March 23, 2012

“Most analyses and prognoses about what is happening are understandably presented and studied within the framework of their separate disciplines: economics, politics, media studies, public health, ecology, national defence, criminology, education etc. In reality each of these separate fields is… Continue reading →

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Berger on storytelling

February 11, 2012

“Story-time (the time within a story) is not linear. The living and the dead meet as listeners and judges within this time, and the greater the number of listeners felt to be there, the more intimate the story becomes to… Continue reading →

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