Based on the BBC television series, John Bergers Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way.
This text was originally published on Maharam Stories in March, 2012. Buy the classic paperback book Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Michael Rock is a New York-based graphic designer and partner at 2x4. In so doing he presages the development of the playlist as a predominant contemporary form and creates one of the first pre-digital books. But Berger also adds two entirely visual essays: a series of examples that by the power of selection and juxtaposition alone makes his thesis. There are five text-and-image essays on everything from Renaissance nudes to modern advertising. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: 'This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings. Reflecting its origin as a televisual experience, the text and images work simultaneously, one leveraging the other. John Bergers Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. The entire text is in bold sans serif, broken down into short paragraphs coupled with visual examples.
The essay text starts on the cover, giving the book both a certain modesty (fewer pages) and an urgency (read it now!). Shortly after it aired, Berger and designer Richard Hollis produced a printed version of the series published by Pelican Books-a slim, 5-inch-by-8-inch paperback with only 166 pages and both black and white ink on uncoated paper-an imprint dedicated to education. Ways of Seeing was a four-part BBC television series written by critic John Berger. While the digital may be destabilizing print, it is interesting to consider the reverse scenario: print stabilizing digital.
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