Geoff Dyer




  • Selected Essays

    Book 2001
    Books, Economy, Essays, Geoff Dyer, Painting, Philosophy, Politics

    Selected Essays, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer, first edition in 2001.
    Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic – even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays, for the first time, takes a definitive look at his extraordinary career. Far from being footnotes to the main body of work Berger’s essays are absolutely cent…
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  • Understanding A Photograph

    Book 2013
    Books, Essays, Geoff Dyer, Marc Trivier, Photography

    Understanding A Photograph, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer, first edition in 2013.
    This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith – and the lives of those photographed – with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness….
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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.