Writing John Berger's biography @AllenLaneBooks, Ed. JB's Portraits & Landscapes @versobooks, The Underground Sea @canongatebooks
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John Berger From Life, the biography I've spent the last 15-odd years on, is out on 27th August w/ @AllenLaneBooks in the UK
penguin.co.uk/books/295293/j…
& @VersoBooks in the US:
versobooks.com/en-gb/product…
Launch @britishlibrary 3rd September, more to follow
events.bl.uk/events/john-ber…
I co-edited a collection of John Berger’s work on miners & strikes. It’s based around a hard-to-find film he made about Zola’s novel Germinal; we turned into a visual essay + added other things inc. a wonderful JB interview with a miner called Joe Roberts canongate.co.uk/books/5120-t…
Matt Harle & I are doing a lunchtime talk (hopefully with interesting enhancements) about this at Weston Park Museum @SheffMuseums on 2nd July
sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/what…
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This is a fine book. And very much in the Berger style. Thank you. As part of our legacy work we’re planning a project on Berger and hope to show this film.
I co-edited a collection of John Berger’s work on miners & strikes. It’s based around a hard-to-find film he made about Zola’s novel Germinal; we turned into a visual essay + added other things inc. a wonderful JB interview with a miner called Joe Roberts canongate.co.uk/books/5120-t…
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This👇 is a great little book
Brilliant how Berger's Open Uni documentary essay on Zola's Germinal is rendered through stills from the recording on the page
I co-edited a collection of John Berger’s work on miners & strikes. It’s based around a hard-to-find film he made about Zola’s novel Germinal; we turned into a visual essay + added other things inc. a wonderful JB interview with a miner called Joe Roberts canongate.co.uk/books/5120-t…
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New! The Underground Sea - brings together for the first time John Berger's work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes, edited by @tw_overton & Matthew Harle as a set of actions for today. Looking forward to reading canongate.co.uk/books/5120-t…
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A real sense of urgency and that voice still resonant. Hopefully only the first volume to come out of Berger’s archives. Thank you @canongatebooks @tw_overton
I had a go at summing up 40 years of @Complicite for their new website: complicite.org/about-us/our-…
I wrote a short @guardianobits piece about Libby Hall -- photographer, writer, collector of dog photographs and dear friend of John Berger theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Alain Tanner (1929-2022) was a pioneering filmmaker who helped make Swiss cinema possible. theb.fi/3C0Mg1g
I wrote @SightSoundmag an obituary of Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker & long-term collaborator with John Berger
bfi.org.uk/news/alain-tanner…
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We're excited to launch 2021 with a first! A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb.
Across 11 weeks, in 52 films and 3 live online conversations, we celebrate the work of multi award winning documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb. Watch this space every Friday bit.ly/3biiLuM
John Berger's mentor Frederick Antal owned this when he was visiting him every week 'like a messenger reporting to a general' in the 50s.
Francesco Solimena, Portrait of a Lady, c.1740, donated to @NationalGallery by Antal's widow in 1955
'Zurbarán's art of the interior suits our fear of the outside' - John Berger, 1988
(The House in Nazareth, c.1640, @ClevelandArt)
