Another Way of Telling

by John Berger

2021-01-01 12:25:14

“There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts.” With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent int... Read more
“There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts.” With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our straightforward art form.
 
As constructed by John Berger and the renowned Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, that theory includes images as well as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and memoir. Another Way of Telling explores the tension between the photographer and the photographed, between the picture and its viewers, between the filmed moment and the memories that it so resembles. Combining the moral vision of the critic and the practical engagement of the photographer, Berger and Moher have produced a work that expands the frontiers of criticism first charged by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag. Less

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File size7.87 X 6.72 X 0.79 in
Print pages304
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date March 7, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780394739984
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John Peter Berger (5 Nov 1926 – 2 Jan 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include; The novel G, which won the Booker Pri...

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