![]() was awarded the Booker Prize in autumn 1972, Berger discovered that Booker McConnell, the prize-giver, was connected to slavery and the ongoing exploitation of the Caribbean. (1972), which became the source of passages of Ways of Seeing on the male gaze. ![]() His proto-feminism also began with her, and developed via his novel G. ![]() John Berger presenting Ways of Seeing (1972), video still.īerger, who died in January 2017, knew Benjamin’s work through his partner, the translator Anya Berger. It opened with Berger apparently cutting into the canvas of Botticelli’s Venus and Mars (c.1485), removing Venus’s head, and declaring ‘an allegorical picture becomes a portrait of a girl.’ The essential idea is one of Walter Benjamin’s, recontextualized for the age of TV: the technology for reproducing art and ideas in new contexts is often used to sell things and preserve the status quo, but it has the potential to bring about revolutionary change. The original Ways of Seeing was a collaboration made with Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Jean Mohr, Richard Hollis and the filmmaker Mike Dibb. As explained in the promotional material, it is ‘based’ on ‘John Berger’s 1972 groundbreaking BBC television series and his respective critical book on visual culture’. Previously, it was on show at ARTER in Istanbul, and the Villa Empain in Brussels. ![]() New York University’s Abu Dhabi Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition titled ‘Ways of Seeing’.
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