Forty years ago this year, BBC premiered a series of four
30-minute films written and anchored by art critic and author John Berger. Soon
adapted into a book, Ways of Seeing went on to become a landmark postmodernist
critique of Western cultural aesthetics, exploring not only how visual culture
came to dominate society but also how ideologies are created and transmitted
via images — a subject of pressing timeliness in that golden age of
photography.
Read the rest at Brain Pickings.
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Read the rest at Brain Pickings.
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
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Berger is an amazing essayist. Thank you so much for these links.
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