A new edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's classic investigation
into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from
other art forms 'One of the world's most influential art critics
... Berger sees clearly with fresh surprise yet profound
understanding' Washington Times In one of the most eloquent
accounts of photography ever devised, the writer John Berger and
the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental
nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range
of questions - What is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How
can they be used? - they give their answers in terms of a
photograph as 'a meeting place where the interests of the
photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using
the photography are often contradictory'. From these beginnings
they develop a theory of photography that has at its centre the
form's essential ambiguity, arguing that photography is totally
unlike a film and has nothing to do with reportage. Rather, it
constitutes 'another way of telling'. The unique combination of
critic and photographer results in a work that moves beyond the
landmarks established by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan
Sontag to establish a new theory of photography. This unique
combination of words and pictures includes 230 photographs by Jean
Mohr.
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