John Berger

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).

Awards

• 1972, Booker Prize
• 1991, Petrarca-Preis
• 2009, Golden PEN Award
• 2011, Groeneveld Foundation Award

Literature

By Berger

• Ways of Seeing, 1972, 1977.
• 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.

About Berger

• Mark Durden (ed.), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge, 2013.

External links

• Berger on Wikipedia