John Berger

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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).

Awards

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

Literature

By Berger
  • John Berger: Ways of Seeing, 1972, 1977.
  • About Looking, 1980.
  • Photocopies, 1996.
  • A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (photographs by Jean Mohr), 1997.
  • Selected Essays (Geoff Dyer ed.), 2001.
  • "Into the Woods", (february 2006) in Simon Morley (ed.), The sublime, 2010, pp. 125-127.
  • Understanding a Photograph (Geoff Dyer ed.), 2013.
About Berger
  • Mark Durden (ed.), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge, 2013.

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