John Berger / Razumeti fotografijo

Understanding a Photograph is a collection of essays on photography from the extensive and insightful oeuvre of the writer and critic John Berger. The important insights into the nature of photography and the distinctive authorial form of the writing are just two of the book's most striking features. The book's editor, Geoff Dyer, has selected twenty of Berger's most important essays on photography, written between 1968 and 2005. The selection ranges from theoretical essays on exhibitions to experimental theoretical texts, and includes Berger's longer and in many ways already classic theoretical essays (such as the essay Uses of Photography), shorter essays, as well as interviews with him. In these essays, Berger, with his writer's flair and a critically incisive theoretical eye, addresses the work of classical photographers such as Paul Strand, W. Eugene Smith, André Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson, as well as contemporary photographers such as Marc Trivier and Ahlam Shibli. In addition to photography in the field of art, Berger's essays deal with the politics of representation and the role of photography in contemporary society. The book is well complemented by an accompanying text by Geoff Dyer, whose book The Ongoing Moment has already been compared to and classified as one of the "new" classic texts on photography.

Language: Slovene
Size: 19 x 13.5 cm, 107 pages
Binding: softcover
Publisher: Membrana, 2024