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Understanding a photograph / John Berger ; edited and introduced by Geoff Dyer.

Understanding a photograph / John Berger ; edited and introduced by Geoff Dyer.
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ISBN 9780141392028 (pbk.) :
Name Berger, John author.
Title Understanding a photograph / John Berger ; edited and introduced by Geoff Dyer.
Published London : Penguin Classics, 2013.
Description xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series Penguin modern classics
Notes Formerly CIP.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Image of Imperialism -- Understanding a photograph -- Political uses of phot-montage -- Photographs of agony -- The suit and the photograph -- Paul Strand -- Uses of photography : for Susan Sontag -- Appearances -- Stories -- Christ of the Peasants : Markéta Luskaačová : "Pilgrims" -- W.Eugene Smith : notes to help documentary film-maker Kirk Morris make a film about Smith -- Walking back home Chris Killip : "In Flagrante" (with Sylvia Grant) -- Means to live Nick Waplington : "Living Room" -- Andre Kertész : "On Reading" -- A man begging in the Métro Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Martine Franck Fax Foreword to "One day to the next" -- Jean Mohr : a sketch for a portrait -- A tragedy the size of the planet convesation with Sebastião Salgado -- Recognition Moyra Peralta :"Nearly invisible" -- Tribute to Cartier-Bresson -- Between here and then Marc Trivier -- Marc Trivier:"My Beautiful -- Jitka Hanzlová: "Forest" -- Ahlam Shibli :"Trackers" -- Sources.
Summary Contains 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 engagement, intensity and tenderness.
Donated by Nell Fraser;
Subjects Photography -- Social aspects
Photographic criticism
Photography -- Philosophy
Photography -- Social aspects
Photographers
Photographic criticism
Added Names Dyer, Geoff editor.
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