If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERAdvertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
More John Berger Quotes
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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