Today the discredit of words is very great.
JOHN BERGER
JOHN BERGER
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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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John BergerJohn Berger In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
John BergerJohn Berger The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
John BergerJohn Berger In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
John BergerJohn Berger Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Adam SchiffAdam Schiff They’re essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor.
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