5/9/2023 0 Comments The ways of seeing book![]() ![]() ![]() He was also a vibrant example of the public intellectual, using his position to speak out against social injustices and to lend his support to artists and activists across the world.īerger’s approach to art came most directly into the public eye in four-part BBC TV series, Ways of Seeing in 1972, produced by Mike Dibb and which preceded the book. The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an idea but also an invitation to see and know the world differently: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled,” he wrote.īerger, who died on January 2 at the age of 90, has had a profound influence on the popular understanding of art and the visual image. ![]()
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