This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
JOHN BERGERThis is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
JOHN BERGERPhotographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGERThe existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
JOHN BERGERHair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERIf the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
JOHN BERGERThese contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERPropaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
JOHN BERGERThe power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
JOHN BERGERAutobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
JOHN BERGERTo remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGER(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.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
JOHN BERGER