These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGERThe poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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