John Berger 1926-1917
January 3 2017
Video: BBC
John Berger, the great art historian, critic and communicator, has died. He was 90. Here is an obituary in The Guardian, here is a 'life in quotes' (a good one: "Hope is not a form of guarantee; it’s a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.”), and here is the New York Times take on his life. Above is the first episode of his lauded BBC series 'Ways of Seeing'. Here is his interview with Jeremy Isaacs in Face to Face, from the days when such programmes were more about the subject than the interviewer.
I'll be back on regular blogging duties tomorrow. Happy New Year to you all.
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