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John Berger

Writing Born Nov 5, 1926 Stoke Newington, London, England 24 credits

Biography

John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.

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Apostrophes

as Self
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Gigot

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  • Apostrophes (1975) as Self
  • Saturday Review (1984) as Self
  • The New Man (2016) as Self
  • Ways of Seeing (1972) as Self
  • John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016) as Self - Subject
  • Right to Work March (1972)
  • Play Me Something (1989) as Secretary
  • Walk Me Home (1993)
  • The Spectre of Hope (2002) as Self
  • The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2017) as Self
  • Another Way of Telling: Views on Photography (1989) as Self
  • 12.Août.2002 (2012) as Self (Voice)
  • W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult (1989) as Self
  • Parting Shots from Animals (1980) as Self (narrator)
  • Germinal (1973) as Presenter
  • Letter from Gaza (2008)
  • Art, Poetry and Particle Physics (2004)
  • A City at Chandigarh (1966) as Narrator
  • Visioni di case che crollano (2002) as Narrator
  • About Time (1985) as John Berger
  • Walter, retour en résistance (2009) as Himself
  • Pig Earth (1979) as Self
  • 8 Poems of Emigration (2020) as Poet / Narrator (voice)
  • Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (2013) as Narrator