Understanding a Photograph: John Berger (Penguin Modern Classics)

Real insight to the world of imaging and how it is used to influence the population of the world.

Exccellent intorduction to reading photographs - great service

John Berger may be the most left-wing intellectual that I admire. In the way of left-wing intellectuals he would have hated me. The first chapter is a commentary on the photograph of the heada Che Guevara. Practically a Hagiography. Read it - but be prepared.

If I have started to look at the complexity of meanings in a photograph and have a new understanding of it.

A classic textbook for photography and visual arts students. Will remain on the reading lists for a long time.

I am absolutely pleased

I was very disappointed with this book, after admiring and learning much from the same author's "Ways' of Seeing".There is some interesting stuff in here, but it is the history and politics that are interesting. The title is misleading It is not really about photography. He uses the photography as a lead in to comment on what he sees as the problems with society and human relationships in modern times.My first instinct, very uncharitably, was to describe this book as "pseudo-intellectual claptrap". But once you get past expecting it to be a book about photography and accept it for what it is that just isn't true.All the same, I think he could have written more clearly and more understandably and with fewer big words and obscure references to poets and philosophers. There is definitely an air of elitism and showing off in the style of writing (education, vocabulary, learning) that get in the way of the message., and show Mr. Berger in rather a poor light.But at least, and unlike some others that write obscurely (e.g. Barthes and Derrida) is style is not totally impenetrable, and he does have something to say. It just isn't as deep or perceptive as the fancy words would have you believe.

This was a present but I think well received.

Comprato dopo aver amato Ways of Seeing, ho amato anche questo.

Love this book..

if you're an aspiring photographer, this book is essential.

Heel goed, in goede staat!

Burger ha sempre il modo di attirare l'attenzione di chi legge il suo libro. Ho letto per prima il suo libro Ways of seeing, è molto interessante e mi ha cambiato il modo di vedere l'uso delle imagini. Quindi ho deciso di prendere anche questo libro per approfondire il campo della fotografia. Molto consigliato.