![]() Here’s an example from the book:īecause I first discovered it in book form, it took me a while to even realize that it was based on the 1972 BBC series of the same name. One of the things Berger’s work taught me early on was the power of captions: How simply changing the text underneath an image radically altered the image’s message. He identified cinema’s ability to move from expansive vistas to close-up shots as that to which he most related and aspired. In conversation with the novelist Michael Ondaatje he remarked that the capabilities of cinematographic editing had influenced his writing. (I drew this map in 2008.)īerger was a hero in my person pantheon of “ writers who draw”:īecause he had been a painter, Berger was always a visual thinker and writer. ![]() I’m reading John Berger’s last published book, Confabulations, and it’s reminding me what an impact his book, Ways of Seeing, had on me when I first read it a decade ago.
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