John Berger
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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).
Works
Television
- Ways of Seeing, 1972.
Publications
- John Berger, The Success and Failure of Picasso, Penguin, 1965, 210 pp; New York: Pantheon, 1965; upd., new pref., New York: Pantheon, 1989, xviii+220 pp; repr., New York: Vintage, 1993, EPUB, ARG. A critical assessment of Picasso and his work. (English)
- La réussite et l'échec de Picasso, trans. Jacqueline Bernard, Paris: Denoël, 1968, 285 pp. (French)
- Ascensión y caída de Picasso, trans. Manuel de la Escalera, Madrid: Akal, 1973, 174 pp. (Spanish)
- Picasson nousu ja tuho, trans. Mirja Rutanen, Love-kirjat, 1985. (Finnish)
- Picasso'nun Başarısı ve Başarısızlığı, Istanbul: Metis, 1986; 2nd ed., 1992; 3rd ed., 1999, EPUB; 5th ed., 2010. (Turkish)
- Glanz und Elend des Malers Pablo Picasso, trans. Anna Stolz, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Ro ro ro, 1988. (German)
- Picasso: framgångar och misslyckanden, trans. Steve Sem-Sandberg, Stockholm: Bromberg, 1989, 265 pp. (Swedish)
- Bikasuo de cheng bai [畢卡索的成敗], Taipei: Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2005, 241 pp. (Chinese)
- Fama y soledad de Picasso, Santillana, 2012. (Spanish)
- A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, photo. Jean Mohr, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston & The Penguin Press, 1967; New York: Pantheon Books, 1982; New York: Vintage, 1997.
- Ways of Seeing, BBC and Penguin, 1972; 1977, 165 pp.
- Modos de veer, trans. Lúcia Olinto, Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1999. (Portuguese)
- Modos de ver, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2000, Scribd. (Spanish)
- About Looking, 1980.
- Photocopies, 1996.
- The Shape of a Pocket, New York: Vintage Books, 2001, EPUB.
- Selected Essays, ed. Geoff Dyer, Vintage, 2001; 2003.
- "Into the Woods", in The Sublime, ed. Simon Morley, 2010, pp 125-127.
- Understanding a Photograph, ed. & intro. Geoff Dyer, Aperture, 2013, 256 pp.
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.
