Understanding a Photograph by John Berger #literature OrionISBN: 9781399602747Extent: 448 pages

OrionISBN: 9781399602747Extent: 448 pages

Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara

haunted here by deaths of family and friends

in search of the soundtrack of the movement

The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook

Understanding a Photograph by John Berger #literature OrionISBN: 9781399602747Extent: 448 pagesJohn Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier Bresson and W. Eugene Smith and the lives of those photographed with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness. The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer,