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'''John Peter Berger''' (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His most academical text is considered ''Ways of Seeing'' (with Mike Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox and Richard Hollis), written as an accompaniment to a BBC series (1972).
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'''John Peter Berger''' (1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. He is best known for the BBC series ''Ways of Seeing'' (1972).
  
==Awards==
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==Works==
* 1972, ''Booker Prize''
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; Publications
* 1991, ''Petrarca-Preis''
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4445 ''Ways of Seeing''], Penguin, 1972; 1977, 165 pp.
* 2009, ''Golden PEN Award''
 
* 2011, ''Groeneveld Foundation Award''
 
 
 
==Literature==
 
; By Berger
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4445 ''Ways of Seeing''], 1972, 1977.
 
 
* ''About Looking'', 1980.
 
* ''About Looking'', 1980.
 
* ''Photocopies'', 1996.
 
* ''Photocopies'', 1996.
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* ''Understanding a Photograph'', ed. Geoff Dyer, 2013.
 
* ''Understanding a Photograph'', ed. Geoff Dyer, 2013.
  
; About Berger
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; TV
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* [http://ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html ''Ways of Seeing''], 1972.
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==Literature==
 
* Peter Fuller, ''Seeing Berger. A Revaluation of ways of Seeing'', Writers and Readers, 1980.
 
* Peter Fuller, ''Seeing Berger. A Revaluation of ways of Seeing'', Writers and Readers, 1980.
 
* Mark Durden (ed.), ''Fifty Key Writers on Photography'', Routledge, 2013.
 
* Mark Durden (ed.), ''Fifty Key Writers on Photography'', Routledge, 2013.
  
[[Category: Photography|Berger, John]]
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==Links==
 
 
==External links==
 
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger Berger on Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger Berger on Wikipedia]
* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=380 Berger on Literary Encyclopedia]
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* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=380 Berger in Literary Encyclopedia]
  
 
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[[Category:Photography]]

Revision as of 12:31, 24 February 2015

John Peter Berger (1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. He is best known for the BBC series Ways of Seeing (1972).

Works

Publications
  • Ways of Seeing, Penguin, 1972; 1977, 165 pp.
  • About Looking, 1980.
  • Photocopies, 1996.
  • A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, 1997. With photographs by Jean Mohr.
  • The Shape of a Pocket, New York: Vintage Books, 2001, EPUB.
  • Selected Essays, ed. Geoff Dyer, 2001.
  • "Into the Woods", in Simon Morley (ed.), The Sublime, 2010, pp 125-127.
  • Understanding a Photograph, ed. Geoff Dyer, 2013.
TV

Literature

  • Peter Fuller, Seeing Berger. A Revaluation of ways of Seeing, Writers and Readers, 1980.
  • Mark Durden (ed.), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge, 2013.

Links