5/10/2023 0 Comments John berger ways of seeing 1972![]() ![]() Richard Hollis, responsible for the book’s design (later made ‘horrible’, in Hollis’s own words, by its inclusion and redesign for the Penguin On Design series), 2 had recently worked with Berger on his novel G, and was recognised as one of the most daring graphic designers of his generation. Mike Dibb had been the series producer and director, Chris Fox its script consultant. 1 An artist himself, Blomberg was the only one of the five people whom Berger credited with turning Ways of Seeing into a book who had neither worked on the television series nor had any experience in making books. ![]() ![]() Here’s a question: are the visual essays that make up almost half of Ways of Seeing important to Ways of Seeing? Fifty years ago, as the book was being made, only one person seemed to think so: Sven Blomberg, the ‘tall Swede’ brought in by John Berger as an ‘outside eye’ on the process. ![]()
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