
Understanding a Photograph
$24.77
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2014
Summary
A selection of John Berger’s writings on photography, including incredible images, edited & selected by Geoff Dyer
John Berger’s writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith – and the lives of those photographed – with fierce e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392028 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141392029 |
| Author: | John Berger, Geoff Dyer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 111mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
John Berger
John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.
Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California.
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