Blogs about: John Berger

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Rain with Samosas; Sympathy for Melville

caledoniacaledonia wrote 3 days ago: Early seven o’clock in the Hamptons. I fell asleep early, while we looked at old pictures of o … more →

Tags: Record of Lived Experience, The Hamptons, sleeping early, The Olympics, noble obtuse narrative, John Tytell, I.D. 2008 Annual Design Review, the Recuerdo principle, Herman Melville

Ways of Seeing2 comments

Gavin wrote 2 months ago: Being envied is a solitary form of assurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience … more →

Tags: Culture, Music, Politics, capitalism, consumerism, Envy, Glamour, Haters, Ways of Seeing

John Berger's BBC Programme Ways of Seeing is on YouTube

adferoafferro wrote 2 months ago: Mark Thwaite points this out. From the wiki: John Berger ( “Is he still alive?”) : Way … more →

Tags: Walter Benjamin

Notes on a Work in Progress Part 2

briancarnold wrote 3 months ago: The real material of my work is the life being lived. I really can see no other option than to phot … more →

Tags: Photography, Art, nicholas nixon, Abelardo Morell, Family Photos, Paul Strand

The Secretive Gaze of Chloe Sevigny and Tadanobu Asano

jgrefe wrote 4 months ago: The image above is of Tadanobu Asano and Chloe Sevigny for Uniqlo’s Spring 2008 UT collection … more →

Tags: Creative Expression, Sartorial Studies, AURA, Chloe Sevigny, Envy, Fashion, Gâze, photograph, reproduction

The Publicity Image: Zach Galifianakis and Absolut

jgrefe wrote 4 months ago: Zach Galifianakis recently made a commercial for Absolut Vodka (featuring the comedic duo “Ti … more →

Tags: Sensual Culture, Psychoanalytic Pondering, Lacan, Absolut Vodka, Liquor and Wine, Absolut Zach, Zach Galifianakis, 2008, Tim and Eric

William Eggleston

briancarnold wrote 5 months ago: I don’t have much to say today, so I am just going to give you these two quotes, both from the … more →

Tags: Photography, Art, Literature, Art Theory, William Eggleston, View Camera, James Joyce, nora joyce

Great street art

Kimberley wrote 5 months ago: Via Wooster is this fabulous piece of site-specific graffiti (that I now think is a painting). This … more →

Tags: Books, Art, Grafitti, I Send You This Cadmium Red, John Christie, Ways of Seeing

Old Thoughts

briancarnold wrote 5 months ago: Earlier this afternoon, I spent a little time procrastinating in my studio, and found an old journal … more →

Tags: Photography, Art, alchemy, criticism, photographic theory

On Violence and Teaching and Rhetoric and Power

cyesis wrote 5 months ago: March 3, 2008 Right or wrong, as I am getting ready for my class this afternoon, I imagine I am prep … more →

Tags: Hit and Miss, thoughts on teaching without a net, audre lorde, Power, MLK, hiroshima

Cities

azhttp wrote 6 months ago: Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Od … more →

Tags: Quotes, Famous, Famous Quotes, Famous Sayings, Funny, Funny Quotes, Quotes Blog, Quote, Quote Of The Day

John Berger: Bosquejos para un retrato de México

clitemnistra wrote 6 months ago: Estoy sentado en una cabaña de madera en las orillas de San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, en el … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Columns, Résistance, Politics, Gobierno, México, La Jornada, EZLN, represión

Ways of Seeing

Dun Wang wrote 6 months ago:   The Ambassadors   Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543) 1533 Oil on oa … more →

Tags: Holbein, Magellan, Ways of Seeing, Charles V

Getting Lost in the Louvre

Wind wrote 9 months ago: Most of the pictures from my Paris flickr set are pictures from the Louvre. One of my favorite f … more →

Tags: Art, critical theory, Museums, Photography, Travel, France, Louvre, marble, Mona Lisa

Discourse on "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger2 comments

Emily May McEwan wrote 10 months ago:    John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” is an in depth look on art, the way people view it and the … more →

Tags: Art, Art Theory, female nude, advertising, traditional oil painting, reproduction

Projecting Space at the Central Saint Martin's MA Show2 comments

Tamarin Norwood wrote 11 months ago: As an artist a lot of my work involves video in one form or another, but the disjuncture between the … more →

Tags: Art, central st martins, Context, Francesca Galeazzi, Graduates, installation, Manuel Furtado dos Santos, Paula Naughton, Review

Nick Cave and Blixa; B-day8 comments

Morgan Wolf wrote 1 year ago: Today’s my birthday. Although I’m sick as hell with a sore throat and fever, I managed … more →

Tags: Entertainment, Grinderman, Music, Nick Cave, pop culture, blixa bargeld, Film Studies, homoeroticism, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Through a Man's Eyes

Gina wrote 1 year ago: Everyone knows about the much talked about kiss at the VMAs between Madonna and Christina.  In a J … more →

Tags: Ways of Seeing, Casual Sex, Christina Aguilera, Girl Power, Madonna, mtv, NY Times, sex, Sexual Icon

Dvorak

mrsokana wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a quote from a piece John Berger wrote in Le Monde diplomatique back in 2003. The whole … more →

Tags: Cello, Classical Music, Dvorak, Literature, ramblings, violin


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