Today the discredit of words is very great.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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