John Berger

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but read more

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. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes read more

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and read more

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.