John Berger

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

• A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, with photographs by 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 veer, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili Editorial, 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 Simon Morley (ed.), The Sublime, 2010, pp 125-127.

• Understanding a Photograph, ed. Geoff Dyer, 2013.

• articles

TV

• Ways of Seeing, 1972.

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

• Berger on Wikipedia
• Berger in Literary Encyclopedia