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Bibliography
Picture of Beverly Bancroft’s collection of each edition of John’s books from all over the world. © John Berger Estate
John Berger (1926-2017) published around 30 books solo or in collaboration with the photograph Jean Mohr (1925-2018). He also collaborated with Nella Bielski, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Selçuk Demirel, John Christie, Anne Michaels, Yves Berger and editors such as Geoff Dyer, Maria Nad…
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Works
Bibliography
John Berger (1926-2017) published more than 30 books. He wrote in english and has been translated into 49 languages.
A Painter of Our Time
1958
A Fortunate Man
1967 with Jean Mohr
Ways of Seeing
1972
G
1972
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
1984
Trilogy Into Their Labours
1979-1990
To The Wed…
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Filmography
John Berger in Ways of Seeing (1972) © BBC Mike Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox and Richard Hollis
Documentaries conceived and presented by John Berger:
John Berger started to work for Granada TV in April 1958 and then later for BBC with Mike Dibb in the 1960’s. They proposed short documentaries about Giacometti, Friso Ten Holt, Picasso, Léger, Ernst Neisvestny, De Stijl, Facteur Cheval…
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Contact
John Berger Estate
Quincy, Mieussy, FRANCE
For any enquiries, please contact John Berger’s agent: Teresa Pintó, Carmen Balcells Literary Agency, Barcelona.https://agenciabalcells.com or form contact beside.
From A to X (2008) some covers © John Berger Estate
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Miscellanous
John Berger in Three lives of Lucie Cabrol © Sarah Ainslie, Theatre Complicité 2005
Beside his books and films, John Berger drew, performed, read in public and collaborated on many different projects. Here is a non-exhaustive glance to his miscellanous activities.
Theater, performance
John Berger often collaborated with Simon McBurney, director of Theatre Complicité based in London. Their …
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Translations
John Berger’s writings have been translated into 50 languages, especially his best-seller Ways of Seeing (1972). The languages in which you can find Ways of Seeing are mentionned with this asterisk *.
Arabic*
Armenian (Armenia)*
Asturian (Spain)
Basque (Spain)
Bengali (India)*
Bulgarian
Catalan (Spain)*
Complex Chinese (Taiwan)*
Simplified Chinese (China)*
Croatian* …
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Beverly Tribute
« During those years nearly all the pages I wrote passed first to you. And you responded in a flash and made suggestions and types them and sent them out and followed them up and arranged translations and contracts.
Whilst writing I consistently awaited your reactions. Writing for me is a form of stripping away, of trying to lead the reader closer to something naked. And the expectation of this nakedness, …
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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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Permanent Red
Book 1960
Art, Books, Early Works, Essays, Painting, Politics
Permanent Red, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1960.
Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political.
In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of histor…
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Poems on the Theatre
Book 1961
Books, Early Works, Poetry, Politics, Theater, Translations by JB
Poems on the Theatre, poetry by Bertolt Brecht, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1961.
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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 Success and Failure of Picasso
Book 1965
Art, Books, Early Works, Essays, France, Painting, Spain
The Success and Failure of Picasso, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1965.
At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated.
In this stunning critical asses…
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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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Art and Revolution
Book 1969
Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Painting, Russia, Sculpture
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1969.
What is the meaning of Revolutionary art? And who is the revolutionary artist?
In Art and Revolution, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscuri…
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Return to my Native Land
Book 1969
Books, Colonialism, France, Migrants, Poetry, Politics, Translations by JB
Return to my Native Land, poem by Aimé Césaire, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1969. New edition introduced by Jason Allen-Paisant who revisited their translation.
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The Look of Things
Book 1972
Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Politics
The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1972.
This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The pieces span from the life of artists like Camille Corot and Fernand Léger; character sketches of the likes of Le Corbusier, Walter Benjamin, Jack Yea…
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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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G
Book 1972
Books, Feminism, Novels
G, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1972. For this novel, John Berger won both the James Tait Black prize and the Booker Prize.
In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and m…
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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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Pig Earth
Book 1979
Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers
Pig Earth, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1979. First volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
« The cow’s legs fold and her body collapses instan…
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About Looking
Book 1980
Art, Books, Essays, Painting
About Looking, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1980.
As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind u…
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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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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Book 1984
Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Philosophy, Poetry
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, book of essays and poems by John Berger, first edition in 1984. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions Champ Vallon (1991), new traduction for Éditions Hourra (2024).
This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above …
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The Sense of Sight
Book 1985
Art, Books, Essays, Painting
The Sense of Sight, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1985.
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, John Berger responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when he writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Léger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the world converged around a marvelous sense of promise…
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Once in Europa
Book 1986
Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers
Once in Europa, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1982. Second volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds – a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it – at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love. Lives are lost and hearts bro…
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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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Lilac and Flag
Book 1990
Books, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Workers
Lilac and Flag, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1990. Third and last volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate journey of love and survival.
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Velasquez Äsop
Book 1991
Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Philosophy, Spain
Velasquez Äsop, artist catalogue of the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) by John Berger, first edition in 1991.
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TRILOGY Into Their Labours
Book 1992
Animals, Books, Countryside, France, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers
Into Their Labours, trilogy by John Berger, first edition in 1992 : Pig Earth (1979), Once in Europa (1986) and Lilac and Flag (1990). A trilogy of novels that traces the journey of the European peasant from the mountains to the metropolis.
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Keeping a Rendez-vous
Book 1992
Books, Essays, Painting, Sculpture
Keeping a Rendez-vous, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1992.
When he stands before Giorgione’s La Tempesta , John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes …
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Pages of the Wound
Book 1994
Art, Books, Drawing, John Christie, Photography, Poetry
Pages of the Wound, book of poems, drawings and photographs 1956-96 by John Berger, first limited edition in 1994, paperback edition in 1996.
Pages of the Wound is the result of a collaboration between John Christie, who printed the original book at Circle Press, and John Berger. This is a collection of his poems, drawings and photographs. It includes 46 poems written between 1956 and 1994. “At Remaurian”, a …
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To the Wedding
Book 1995
Books, Novels
To the Wedding, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1995.
A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter’s wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has fallen in love with the young Italian Gino. She is twenty-three years old – and she is dying of AIDS. As their wedding approaches, the story of Ninon and Gino unfolds. On their wedding day, Ninon will take off her shoes and …
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Photocopies
Book 1996
Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Exhibitions, Short Stories
Photocopies, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1996.
This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and mountainscapes.
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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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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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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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King: A Street Story
Book 1999
Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Novels, Workers
King: A Street Story, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1999. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (1999).
A furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. You will be led to a place you haven’t been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog (or is he?) to a wasteland beside the motorway called Saint Valery.
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Books about John Berger
Book 1999
About John Berger, Books, Collaborations, Essays, Maria Nadotti, Poetry, Tributes
Edited by Nikos Papastergiadis : What John Berger Saw (1999)Written and edited by Olivier Cohen : Pour saluer John Berger (2002, in french)Edited by Di Robson and Gareth Evans : John Berger – A Season in London (2005)Edited by Maria Nadotti : John Berger (2011, in Italian) ; Trasporti e traslochi, Raccontare John Berger (2014, in Italian)Edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam with Amarjit Chandan : A Jar of wild flowers, ess…
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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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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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The Shape of a Pocket
Book 2001
Books, Essays, Painting, Short Stories
The Shape of a Pocket, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2001.
John Berger writes: “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. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about – Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painter…
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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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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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Italian books
Book 2004
Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Essays, Italy, Maria Nadotti
Maria Nadotti edited John Berger’s books which only exist in italian : Modi di Vedere (2004) • Abbi cara ogni cosa (2007 similar version to Hold Everything Dear) • La Speranza, nel frattempo (conversation with Arundhati Roy, 2010) • Contro i nuovi tirani (2012) • Sulla Motocicletta (2018).
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Here is Where We Meet
Book 2005
Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Novels
Here is Where We Meet, novel by John Berger, first edition in 2005. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2006).
No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he recognises Ken, his passeur,…
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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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Berger on Drawing
Book 2005
Books, Drawing, Essays, Yves Berger
Berger on Drawing, book of essays and drawings by John Berger, edited by Jim Savage, first edition in 2005.
With 49 black and white illustrations including drawings by John and Yves Berger. Berger On Drawing is an exciting anthology of essays in which John Berger explores that most primary and most primal of all art activities: drawing.
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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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The Red Tenda of Bologna
Book 2007
Books, Family, Italy, Philosophy
The Red Tenda of Bologna, book by John Berger as a dream-like meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna in Italy, first edition in 2007.
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Hold Everything Dear
Book 2007
Books, Economy, Essays, Politics, Workers
Hold Everything Dear, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2007.
A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice. From the ‘War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far ex…
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From A to X
Book 2008
Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Palestine, Politics
From A to X, novel by John Berger, first edition in 2008. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2009).
Novel about love and resistance, From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily…
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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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Why Look at Animals?
Book 2009
Animals, Books, Essays, Painting
Why Look at Animals? book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2009.
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the center of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle. Throughout hi…
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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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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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Bento’s Sketchbook
Book 2011
Books, Drawing, Essays, Philosophy
Bento’s Sketchbook, essay and drawings by John Berger about Spinoza, first edition in 2011.
A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing. The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no dr…
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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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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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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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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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Collected Poems
Book 2014
Books, Poetry
Collected Poems, book of poems by John Berger, first limited edition in 2014.
Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding concerns with art and politics, love and war, history and memory, emigration, immigration and the life of the European peasantry. It includes well-known poems like “The Ladle”, “Village Maternity” and “Death of La Nan M.” as well over twenty previously unpublished poems. From …
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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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Portraits
Book 2015
Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Philosophy, Tom Overton
Portraits, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2015. This first volume has been completed by a second volume Landscapes (2016).
John Berger tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Ja…
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Landscapes
Book 2015
Art, Books, Contemporary art, Essays, Tom Overton
Landscapes, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2016. This volume completes a first volume Portraits (2015).
What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity. In this collection of diverse works — essays, short stories, poems, translations — which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his…
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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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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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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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Confabulations
Book 2016
Books, Drawing, Essays
Confabulations, last book of essays and drawings by John Berger before his death in 2017, first edition in 2016.
«Language is a body, a living creature … and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate. »
John Berger writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger’s own drawings, notes, mem…
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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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FILM: JB or The Art of Looking
Film 2017
Non classé
JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING a film by Cordelia Dvorák.
Director’s statementThis film is a sensitive gift of love for John Berger, steward of the voiceless and the underprivileged, perpetually critical and highly engaged political intellectual, generous collaborator, extraordinary host and cook, who till the age of 90 had remained curiously inquisitive – a truly universal human being.
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What Time Is It?
Book 2018
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Maria Nadotti, 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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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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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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Portraits Italian lectures
Nov 05 2021
After Italian edition of Portraits (Ritratti, Il Saggiatore) and for John Berger’s 95th birthday, Maria Nadotti proposed an ambitious project : « Per John B. Ritratti d’artista ad alta voce » with Okta Film production. She gathered 30 actors to read aloud 30 portraits of artists written by John Berger. All these readings can be listened to online and each actor will also explain his/her artistic choice and his…
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MELBOURNE MEMORIAL LECTURE: Behrouz Boochani and Hoda Afshar
Dec 07 2022
The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. They invite Behrouz Boochani and Hoda Afshar.Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian born journalist, author, academic and former refugee. Hoda Afshar is an Iranian documentary photographer, based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Is…
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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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Barcelona Exhibition: Permanent Red
May 13 2023
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona proposes a great exhibition from 13th of May to 22nd of October 2023.
Permanent Red exhibition © La Virreina Centre de la Imatge – Pep Herrero
Curated by Valentín Roma, with Laura Casal-Valls in charge of coordination and production, this exhibition presents John Berger’s commitments through his books, videos, drawings completed by Jean Mo…
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Annemasse exhibition: «Des fruits…»
Jun 02 2023
HEAD-Geneva (art school) students’ exhibition around John Berger at Villa du Parc, Annemasse (beside Geneva, Haute-Savoie, France)After their class «Expose John Berger» leaded by Aurélie Pétrel and Garance Chabert, 20 students proposed the collective exhibition «Des fruits tels que s’en souviennent les morts». John’s work inspired a great diversity of creations, some were very subtile for exemple the on…
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Dance company Mal Pelo Tour 2023
Jul 20 2023
On several occasions, John has collaborated with Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis who lead the dance company Mal Pelo. They are based in Girona beside Barcelona. We can still hear John’s voice or his texts in their shows like On Goldberg Variations, Highlands and Inventions. Among many representations during their european tour, they will play :Inventions at Festival d’Avignon, 20 to 25th of July 2023Inventions at…
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Melbourne Memorial Lecture : Over to you
Sep 27 2023
The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. Yves in Quincy and Isaac in Melbourne will read OVER TO YOU extracts. Multigenerational and worldwide dialogue, to make resonate John and Yves’ post card chat.John and Yves Berger OVER TO YOU is already available in French, Korean, Turkish and Spanish, in English in 2024.
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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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Zoo Index Project
Jan 30 2024
Terezie Štindlová quoted 1977 John Berger’s text “Why Look At Animals?” in her work Zoo Index Project.
Zoo Index Reader examines the relevance of zoos and how they shape our gaze towards nonhuman animals, and by extension, ourselves and one another. Through a mixture of visual research and written contributions on the history of menageries, the confinement and privatization of land, zoo architecture, pet…
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Return To My Native Land edited by Jason Allen-Paisant
Mar 21 2024
Return To My Native Land by Aimé Césaire translated by John Berger and Anya Bostock
In 1969, John and Anna translated Return To My Native Land by Aimé Césaire, originally published in french in 1939. Penguin proposed to publish this masterpiece of West-Indian author into its collection Modern Classic and, recommended by Aimé Césaire’s family, they entrusted Jason Allen-Paisant,&n…
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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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Into Their Labours meeting
Apr 25 2024
In 1973, John Berger set up in Quincy in Giffre Valley to immerse himself into peasant world to write his trilogy Into Their Labours. The three books have been progressively published in french but the trilogy has been published for the first time in french only in 2024 by Éditions Héros Limite.
The 25th of April 2024, the Geneva publisher Alain Berset came to Giffre valley, at écomusée du Clos Parchet abo…
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Here is Where We Meet podcast
May 12 2024
Michael Morris and James Lingwood previously co-directors of Artangel, launched with TANK Magazine a new podcast HERE IS WHERE WE MEET, sequence of conversation including Jeremy Deller, Laurie Anderson, Simon McBurney, Yto Barrada…
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Nikos Papatergiadis John Berger and Me
Aug 01 2024
The Australian sociologist based at the University of Melbourne wrote this book about his friendship with John, their reflections, especially about migrants and migration.
More information on Giramondo website
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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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Ways of Travelling Qattan Foundation book
Oct 10 2024
Despite the genocide and the war, Palestinian cultural world is still in resistance keeping to work, think, create, publish… Based in Gaza, London and Ramallah, the Qattan Foundation published Ways of Travelling about their artist residency program.
We can’t find yet any webpage about this publication, but here you’ll have some informations about :Announcement of the recipients of the Ways of Travelling …
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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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Hackney: 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 team for Libraries, Heritage and Culture organised a night of celebration at Dalston CLR James Library with Ken Worpole, Farrukh Dhondy and Tom Overton.
“A fantastic night in honour of Booker Prize winner, art critic and poet John Berger at Dalston C.L.R James Library. We were j…
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Lecture: Over To You
Nov 15 2024
Yves Berger and Ariane Gülich joined Point Reyes Books, Californian bookshop, via Zoom on 15th of November 2024 for a reading and conversation about Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son (2024, Pantheon), a book of correspondence between Yves Berger and his father John Berger.
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2025, Ariane and Yves portraits by each other © John Berger Estate
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Japan Screenings: Four Seasons in Quincy
Mar 14 2025
Thanks to Sungwon Kim, translator of A Seventh Man (1975) published by blkswn publishing in 2024, Theatre Image Forum Shibuya proposes screenings of The Seasons in Quincy: Four portraits of John Berger, documentary directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth, produced by the Derek Jarman Lab and the University of Pittsburgh.
From 24th of May 2025 in Tokyo for at least 4 weeks.
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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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Athens Exhibition: Why Look at Animals?
May 05 2025
Athens, from 16th of May 2025 to 15th of February 2026
Curated by Katerina Gregos, Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives is a major group exhibition that centres on animal rights and animal well-being, highlighting the need to recognise and defend the lives of non-human animals in an anthropocentric world that marginalises, oppresses and brutalises them. The exhibition is inspired by the s…
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Dance Mal Pelo 2025 We
May 05 2025
On several occasions, John Berger has collaborated with Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis who lead the dance company Mal Pelo. They are based in Girona beside Barcelona. Their new creation WE is inspired by John Berger’s poem “Separation” (in Collected Poems) about migrants. In 2025, they will tour in Spain and France.
More info about WE
More Info about Mal Pelo and John Berger
WE 2025 Mal Pelo ©Trist…
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Photocopies: Prison Stories
May 14 2025
Hannah White’s work is all about connection and solidarity: listening and sharing what she has heard is at the heart of what she does. Since November 2023, she has been working on adapting the writing of John Berger for a new theatre show. Based on Photocopies written in the 1990s, the audience is guided through a series of encounters. Recalled with wisdom, love and humour, they meet a pregnant teenager on a bus to …
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Argentina theater : DE A PARA X
May 17 2025
Ana Cinkö adapted John Berger’s book From A To X (2008), into a theater play with her company Compania.be in Buenos Aires, en el Teatro Río Colorado.
Ana Cinkö’s Instagram
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Postdam conference
Jun 11 2025
John Berger: the poetics and politics of collaboration
June 11-13 International conference, Postdam university.
Collaboration is a leitmotif that runs through the multi-faceted work of John Berger. In his art criticism he consistently interrogated the deep-seated notion of the artist as individual creator, and instead propagated the insight that “every authentic painting demonstrates a collaboration”. In …
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Seoul Pillar Bookshop
Jun 17 2025
All Pages for John Berger
June 17 to July 6, 2025 – Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
Pillar Bookshop, located at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, suggested displaying all of John Berger’s books for three weeks. They also proposed lectures by Sulla Lee and Hyunwoo Kim. They also printed a poster with all John Berger’s titles and a series of cards with quotations.
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Centenary Visual
Sep 08 2025
John Berger would have been 100 years old in 2026. Several rendez-vous will take place to celebrate this anniversary, and so Carmen Balcells Agency through Teresa Pinto proposed to create a centenary visual.
Here it is. It uses a self-portrait and a quote that we specially love.
This visual will be associated to all these centenary events, as a “fil rouge” between all of them.
With this page, we sp…
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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.