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  1. A woman stands before a blue screen in a museum.
    The image asks who is allowed to look, and how meaning is shaped by the place that frames the act of seeing.

    #Photography #Looking #Attention #WaysOfSeeing #Museum #QuietMoments #art #Seeing

  2. “Seeing comes before words”*…

    Five years ago, (R)D featured John Berger’s award-winning– and more to the point, hugely-influential– television series Ways of Seeing (in some ways a response to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series). The broadcast was followed by an adaptation of Berger’s scripts that became a book of the same name.

    Now that hugely influential work is available in a gorgeous web version…

    Based on the 1972 BBC series and comprised of 7 essays, 3 of which are entirely pictoral, Ways of Seeing is a seminal work which examines how we view art…

    A beautiful new way to enjoy (and learn from) a classic: “Ways of Seeing

    * John Berger (the first line of Ways of Seeing)

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    As we ponder perspective, we might pause to celebrate the induction, on this date in 2005, into the the National Toy Hall of Fame of a plaything that invites constant creativity– the cardboard box.

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    #art #cardboardBox #civilization #culture #history #JohnBerger #KennethClark #literature #NationalToyHallOfFame #philosophy #toys #WaysOfSeeing

  3. "Sometimes I say to myself that the storyteller is Death's secretary"

    Most well-known for his excellent "Ways of Seeing" TV series and books—amongst other works—John Berger also wrote and presented 'About Time'.

    It's a collection of meditations on time, death, story telling, the nature of being, the Present and Berger's humanism, as always, shines through.

    youtu.be/USzGCdoLhjQ?si=ht4fMr

    #JohnBerger #AboutTime #WaysOfSeeing #Documentary