experience
This is from Landscapes: John Berger on Art. I would have loved to have met and chatted with John Berger!
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The soul and the operator
Image: Photograph from 1910 of a basement corridor in the Glasgow School of Art Words: John Berger [on Art]
of absence and presence
In 1855, Duncan Brown, Janitor for the Glasgow School of Art and pioneering amateur photographer, took a photograph of five men and two boys in a garden . . . … Continue reading of absence and presence
Mapping an obsession
Dr Gavin Francis has called his latest book Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession. Gavin will be talking about this book at Toppings bookshop, a week today [15 October 2020] . … Continue reading Mapping an obsession
‘GOOD SPECTACLES’
I recently had to go for new glasses. Impairment of my long distance vision began in Secondary School. Impairment of my near distance vision [reading distance] began along with grey … Continue reading ‘GOOD SPECTACLES’
Another way of telling
This is a quote by John Berger from ‘Understanding a photograph’. I like to think that Berger would have appreciated my approach to making films.
do more than spell the word
I have been reading ‘Understanding a Photograph’ by John Berger. When I read this sentence I found myself considering the approach currently taken, at least in much of the Western … Continue reading do more than spell the word
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