This paper discusses how images help to create social history. Images help us understand not only the message in it but also about the culture. The images that are presented all around us are open books that chronicle the history and the social binding of society. We see images in newspapers, billboards, television, and even in mobile phones. This theme is also observed in his novel King, but there his focus is more in the rural diaspora and the bitter side of the urban way of life.Modern life is surrounded by images.

With those books, Berger makes a meditation about the way of the peasant, that changes one poverty for another in the city.

One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss,Īnother of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, that includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In Europa (1983) Lilac And Flag (1990). Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text. John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bento’s Sketchbook. It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace' -Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling

'The influence of the series and the book. He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation' -Peter Fuller, Arts Review 'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures.' By now he has. 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.

John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language.

Ways of seeing by john berger