Marc Trivier




  • 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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  • 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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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.