John berger ways of seeing book5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As in the death of a person, so in the decay of a society. When you have lost the power to speak, when consciousness is fading, there will still be faces surrounding the bed. Seeing comes before words – and after them. Within it we could begin to define our own experiences more precisely in areas where words are inadequate. They surround us in the same way as a language surrounds us … If the new language of images were used differently, it would, through its use, confer a new kind of power. Or, in Berger’s inspiring words: “For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. This is your own image world, in which you find your own meanings. Think of a pinboard where you stick your own favourite pictures, of all sorts, from magazine photographs to postcards of famous paintings. In 1972, Berger wrote that we are free to see images in collages of our own making. ![]()
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