John Berger: From Life review – a vibrant biography of the pioneering critic
John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography
Tom Overton's biography of John Berger, the critic behind the 1972 BBC series Ways of Seeing, draws on Berger's donated archive at the British Library. Overton, who curated the collection, portrays Berger as a storyteller who saw looking as a political act. The review notes Berger's contradictions, from Marxist exile to High Tory traditionalist.
We never look at just one thing. We are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.