Ways of Seeing: John Berger’s classic 1972 BBC critique of consumer culture

by Laura Domela

Forty years ago this year, BBC premiered a series of four 30-minute films written and anchored by art critic and author John Berger. Soon adapted into a book, Ways of Seeing (public library) went on to become a landmark postmodernist critique of Western cultural aesthetics, exploring not only how visual culture came to dominate society but also how ideologies are created and transmitted via images — a subject of pressing timeliness in that golden age of photography.
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Ways of Seeing: John Berger’s classic 1972 BBC critique of consumer culture

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