Collaborations
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A Seventh Man
Book 1975
Books, Collaborations, Essays, Jean Mohr, Migrants, Photography
A Seventh Man, by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1975.
This seminal classic explores the fate of migrant workers.
First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of those who have travelled to live and work in Europe. Art critic, novelist, and artist John Berger brings humanity and a voice to those silenced in the p…
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A Fortunate Man
Book 1967
Books, Collaborations, Doctor, Essays, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, UK, Workers
A Fortunate Man : the story of a country doctor, first collaboration by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1967.
Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal. In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the lin…
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Another Way of Telling
Book 1982
Books, Collaborations, Essays, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, Workers
Another Way of Telling, by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1982.
John Berger and Jean Mohr’s classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms
The writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions – W…
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Swimming Pool
Book 2020
Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Painting
Swimming Pool, essay by John Berger edited by John Christie with Leon Kossoff’s works, first edition in 2020.
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At the Edge of the World
Book 1999
Books, Collaborations, Jean Mohr, Photography
At the Edge of the World, a Jean Mohr’s book (text and photos) in collaboration with John Berger, first publication in 1999.
Swiss photographer Jean Mohr has travelled the globe documenting the lives of the dispossessed, the marginalized and the overlooked for over forty years. In 1996, while convalescing from a serious operation in the mountains near Geneva known locally as ‘The Edge of the World’, Mohr realiz…
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A Question of Geography
Book 1987
Books, Collaborations, Economy, Nella Bielski, Politics, Russia, Theater
A Question of Geography, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1987.
The play centres on Daria Petrovna Petrova, who, having been condemned to ten years in the Gulag, now lives in Magadan in permanent exile. Daria has formed a relationship with a doctor who is also a prisoner, but who is allowed out of the prison camp during the day on account of his profession.
When the play opens, Daria is …
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Goya’s last portrait
Book 1989
Art, Books, Collaborations, Nella Bielski, Spain, Theater
Goya’s last portrait, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1989.
At a time of chaos and upheaval, Francisco Goya made his living painting portraits of the royal family and aristocracy of Spain which were often devastating in their truth. He also painted a number of self-portraits. But he left another self-portrait – and a portrait of his times – in the form of drawings and etchings which …
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Isabelle: A Story in Shorts
Book 1998
Books, Collaborations, Colonialism, Feminism, Nella Bielski, Theater
Isabelle: A Story in Shorts, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1998.
John Berger and Nella Bielski’s powerful story in shots brilliantly recreates the life of Isabelle Eberhardt, a young European woman who travelled throughout North Africa disguised as a man.
In 1897, Isabelle, aged twenty, left Geneva for Kenadsa, at the Moroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and a desire…
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Titian : Nymph and Shepherd
Book 1996
Art, Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting
Titian : Nymph and Shepherd, book of letters by Katya and John Berger, first edition in 1996.
This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality. Both seem to listen to the other with great attention. Secondly, it is the extraordinary vehicle for a series of insights into the everyday life and the art of the great Venetian master, following an uncanny incident …
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Mantegna : Lying Down to Sleep
Book 2010
Art, Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting
Mantegna : Lying Down to Sleep, book of letters by Katya and John Berger, first edition in 2010.
The clouds in the Oculus of the Bridal Chamber, painted by Andrea Mantegna at St George’s Castle in Mantua, are the starting point for an intimate dialogue between father and daughter John and Katya Berger, held as they observe the frescoes in the famous room. The conversation leads to a personal exploration of…
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Man on a Beach
Book 1998
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
Man on a Beach by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 1998.
A man sitting at his desk dreams of the beach… He looks beyond the shore, the sea, the horizon: hand in hand with the stars, he draws on the sky. From his apartment filled with books, he tries to reach the world of dreams… Selçuk Demirel invites the reader into his imaginary world, floating like a poem. And …
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Cataract
Book 2012
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Painting, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
Cataract by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 2012.
What happens when an art critic loses some of his sight to cataracts? What wonders are glimpsed once vision is restored? In this impressionistic essay written in the spirit of Montaigne, John Berger records the effects of cataract removal operations on each of his eyes. With words by John Berger and beautiful illustrat…
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Smoke
Book 2016
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
Smoke by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 2016.
John Berger, long-time smoker, joins forces again with Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel in an unexpected pictorial essay.
Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked.
This charming pictorial essay reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of bri…
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What Time Is It?
Book 2018
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
What Time Is It? edited by Maria Nadotti with John Berger’s texts and Selçuk Demirel’s illustrations, first edition in 2018.
This is a playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Our perception of it assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of hours, but Berger suggests that it is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. In this beautiful essay in picture…
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I Send You This Cadmium Red
Book 2000
Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Letters, Painting, UK
I Send You This Cadmium Red, a correspondence between John Berger and John Christie, first edition in 2000.
« Could it be that red is the one colour that is continually asking for a body? »
A book of correspondence between two highly talented friends-writer/critic/artist John Berger and filmmaker/artist John Christie – I Send You This Cadmium Red began in concept in February 1997, when Christie mused to  
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Four Horizons
Book 2015
Art, Books, Collaborations, John Christie, Letters
Four horizons, A visit to the Ronchamp chapel of Le Corbusier, John Berger, John Christie, sister Telchilde Hinckley, sister Lucia Kuppens, first edition in Spanish in 2015.
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Lapwing & Fox
Book 2016
Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Letters, Painting, UK
Lapwing & Fox, Conversations between John Berger and John Christie, first edition in 2016.
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My Beautiful
Book 2004
Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Essays, France, Marc Trivier, Photography, Sculpture, Workers, Yves Berger
My Beautiful by John Berger (text) and Marc Trivier (photographs), first publication in English and French in 2004.
The question of beauty is addressed here in the intertwining of photographic and writing approaches. Jean Marquis made portraits of Giacometti in his studio, Marc Trivier photographed Giacometti’s sculptures. John Berger, in the continuation of his reflection and in particular on his distance from…
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Books with Marisa Camino
Book 2005
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Letters, Painting, Spain
John Berger contributed to three Marisa Camino’s books :
Entries (2005)
Como crece una pluma (2005)
Cartas a Marisa Camino (2018)
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Books with Liane Birnberg
Book 2006
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Poetry
John Berger contributed to three Liane Birnberg’s books :
Word from a foreign language (2006)
Because wings are made to fly (2011)
Garden to my cheek (2016)
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Le Blaireau et le Roi
Book 2010
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Le Blaireau et le Roi , book by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre, first edition in 2010, in link with the exhibition Dans leur travail at Chartreuse de Mélan (2006 Taninges, France).
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Flying Skirts
Book 2010
Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Poetry, Quincy, Tributes, Yves Berger
Flying Skirts book by Yves and John Berger as an elegy to Beverly Bancroft (1942-2014), first edition in 2015. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2015).
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Over To You
Book 2019
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Over To You correspondence book of texts and images by Yves and John Berger, first edition in french in 2019, in english in 2024. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for L’Atelier contemporain (2019).
Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art,…
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Railtracks
Book 2011
Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Countryside, Essays, Photography, UK
Railtracks, by Anne Michaels and John Berger (text), first publication in 2011. Some editions with Tereza Stehlikova photographs.
Railtracks is a unique collaboration between two writers of remarkable achievement. A profound meditation on railways, love and loss, at once intimate and committed, it moves from the industrial to the metaphysical, from the tectonic shifts of globalization to the interior pulses of m…
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John by Jean
Book 2016
About John Berger, Books, Collaborations, Countryside, Family, France, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, Quincy, Tributes
John by Jean, Fifty Years of Friendship, edited by Jim Savage with Simone and Jean Mohr photographs, first publication in 2016.
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Seeing Through Drawing
Book 2017
About John Berger, Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Tributes, UK, Yves Berger
Seeing Through Drawing, art catalogue, texts and correspondences with John Berger and others, edited by John Christie, first edition in 2017.
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Par La Fenêtre
Book 2009
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Par La Fenêtre, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre in link with their exhibition at Galerie Josephski-Neukum (2009, Issing, Germany).
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Disparate De Fuendetodos
Book 2013
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Spain, Yves Berger
Disparate De Fuendetodos, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, in link with their exhibition at Sala Zuloaga (2013, Fuendetodos, Spain).
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Desde el taller
Book 2015
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Desde el taller , dialog between Yves and John Berger with Emmanuel Favre, drawings by Yves and John Berger, edited in 2015.
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JOHN BERGER
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.