UK




  • Coventry (UK) exhibition: Migrating Dreams and Nightmares

    Jan 31 2023

    ‘Migrating Dreams and Nightmares’ is a new exhibition of images and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr, on display at Commonground in Coventry. The exhibition is based on their book A Seventh Man, first published in 1973 and looks at migration in Europe. Nirmal Puwar (Academic at Goldsmiths, University of London) first co-curated this exhibition in 2016 at Goldsmiths University of London. This new exhibition is on di…
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  • Magazine CRITICAL QUARTERLY special issue

    Apr 18 2023

    Magazine CRITICAL QUARTERLY special John Berger, Volume 65, 141 pages, April 2023Leo Robson has commissioned about a dozen essays on different aspects of John Berger’s work. Contributors were very inventive and it ended up with works on Berger and food, Berger and the representation of women, Berger and time… from among others Marina Warner, Ben Lerner, Lamorna Ash, Jonathan Nunn, and Henry Mance. 
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  • A Painter of Our Time

    Book 1958
    Books, Early Works, Migrants, Novels, Painting, UK

    A Painter of our Time, first novel written by John Berger in 1958.
    A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger’s great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter named Janos Lavin has disappeared following a triumphant on…
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  • The Foot of Clive

    Book 1962
    Books, Early Works, Novels, UK

    The Foot of Clive, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1962.
    In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die before he can be hanged for his crime. In the closed, regimented society of the ward, his invisible presence fractures and rebuilds the way the other patients see the world. In the face of someone who …
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  • Corker’s Freedom

    Book 1964
    Books, Early Works, Novels, UK

    Corker’s Freedom, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1964.
    A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty story about the pitfalls of free will. In the course of a day, the ageing owner of an employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams, seeking an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility.
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  • The Underground Sea – Miners and the Miners’ strike

    Oct 06 2023

    This new John Berger book edited by Tom Overton and Matthew Harle brings together for the first time John Berger’s work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The Underground Sea marks the 40th anniversary of the 1984-85 Strike, at a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action. Including transcripts…
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  • The Shape Of A Pocket events

    Apr 04 2024

    To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf and Tina Grace launch a series of bi-annual The Shape Of A Pocket events to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments. This name is inspired by John Berger’s book of essays The Shape of a Pocket, published in 2001, including the text “Against the Great Defeat of the World” mentioning a piece of the puzzle which « has the shape of a pocket, and consists of all …
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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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  • Ways of Seeing

    Book 1972
    Art, Books, Essays, Feminism, Painting, UK

    Ways of Seeing, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1972, based on the BBC television series with John Berger, made by John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Michael Dibb and Richard Hollis.
    This book has been translated in 38 languages.
    “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” — so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at artJohn B…
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Iona Heath Ways of Learning

    Sep 12 2024

    The English Doctor Iona Heath, wrote Ways of Learning – John Berger for the Oxford University Press collection “My Reading” which offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works and to show their effect upon a reader’s own thinking and development. It includes Iona and John’s correspondance over nearly 20 years.
    More information on Oxford University Press
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  • Hackney Museum: Night of celebration

    Nov 05 2024

    John Berger was born on 5th of November 1926 in Stoke Newington, Hackney district of London. On Tuesday 5th of November 2024, Hackney Museum organised a night of celebration with Ken Worpole, Farrukh Dhondy and Tom Overton.
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  • Leyla Josephine: Spoken Word Poetry

    Oct 11 2024

    Leyla Josphine published a book of poetry In Public / In Private (Burning Eye Books, 2022, sold out) including the poem “Dear John Berger” where she speaks to John Berger especially about what he wrote in Ways Of Seeing (1972). She won a poem performance award reading this poem, Forward Prize for the Best Single Poem – Performed 2024.
    More info on her book
    2023 Leyla Josephine DEAR JOHN BERGER © I…
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  • The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025

    Apr 28 2025

    To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf proposes this second The Shape Of A Pocket event to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments.
    «The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.»
    John Berger
    Sunday May 11th – 4pm – 6:30pm  Upstairs …
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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.