Understanding a photograph /
By: Berger, John
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Contributor(s): Dyer, Geoff [ed.].
Publisher: New York : Aperture, 2013Description: 175 p. : ill., plates ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781597112567; 9781597112567:; 1597112569.Subject(s): Photographic criticism![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Image of imperialism -- Understanding a photograph -- Political uses of photo-montage -- Photographs of agony -- The suit and the photograph -- Paul Strand -- Uses of photography : for Susan Sontag -- Appearances -- Stories -- Christ of the peasants : Markéta Luskačová: Pilgrims -- W. Eugene Smith : notes to help Kirk Morris make a documentary film -- Walking back home : Chris Killip: In flagrante (with Sylvia Grant) -- Means to live : Nick Waplington: Living room -- A man begging in the Métro : Henri Cartier-Bresson -- André Kertész: On reading -- Martine Franck : fax foreword to One day to the next -- Jean Mohr: a sketch for a portrait -- A tragedy the size of the planet : conversation with Sebastião Salgado -- Recognition : Moyra Peralta: Nearly invisible -- Tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Between here and then : Marc Trivier -- Marc Trivier: My beautiful -- Jitka Hanzlová: Forest -- Ahlam Shibli: Trackers.
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the 20th century. 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.