29 September 2012

Seeing.

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

1 comment:

  1. Berger is an amazing essayist. Thank you so much for these links.

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