When he was a teenager, the artist Yves Berger played frequent ping pong games with his father, the art critic and essayist John Berger, in the hayloft of their home. John was in his 60s at the time, ...

Drawing by Selçuk Demirel accompanying the text in John Berger's Cataract (2023) (all images courtesy Notting Hill Editions) Then the theorist who had devoted much of his career to mastering the ...

John Berger, the English Marxist critic who has written about painting and sculpture since the Fifties, has of late enlarged his purview to include photography. To a large extent, his growing interest ...

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 ...