John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is 50 years old in 2022. From January 3rd, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast five essays responding to his work, and a specific artwork. Featuring Olivia Laing, Geoff Dyer, Melissa Chemam Tom Overton and me. Thanks to Mair Bosworth. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
'I would like every page I write to be like a drawing: a consistency of line, the making of forms tangible, the underlying structure emerging and the whiteness of the paper the reader’s induced innocence.'
—John Berger, Some Notes on Writing, Gambit Magazine, 1965 ht Tom Overton
Eyes peeled if you pass Church Street in Stoke Newington! You can just about see John Berger looking out from the library. The poster’s journey from the street was via StokeyLitFest auction with Tom Overton , bought and kindly donated to Hackney Libraries in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians
So pleased to see Helen Marten's The Boiled in Between on this list, thanks to Tom Overton. So many great recommendations here: thewhitereview.org/feature/books-…
#JohnBerger wrote with Shaffer ink which created many washes - with salt, with spit, with water. Here a page from Bento left out in the rain - Tom Overton Yasmin Gunaratnam
#JohnBerger born today, 95 years ago: here a passage from one of his manuscripts about birth, space and time. Tom Overton Yasmin Gunaratnam @RobfromMalpas
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-the…
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 National Gallery by Antal's widow in 1955
#JohnBerger passed away on Jan 2nd, 2017. In 1973 he was on the radio: ADDRESSING POSTERITY - passages taken from his travel notebooks while writing 'Seventh Man'. @yasmingun Tom Overton
All this week on BBC Radio 4 we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ways of Seeing, the 1972 collaboration between John Berger & Mike Dibb.
With pieces by Geoff Dyer, Olivia Laing, Tom Overton, Sinéad Gleeson + Melissa Chemam.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
oritgat Chris Fite-Wassilak @_maeveconnolly Sarah Neely Susannah Thompson @AdelePatrickGWL Zoe Strachan Lee Randall Prof Dee Heddon 🏳️🌈 Noel Patterson @FaithfullJohn Leela Soma Dr Hayleigh Barclay 🧙🏻♀️🔮🧹 Dr Kyla McDonald 🌿 Karen Boyle Helen de Main @armsofrain Deborah Jackson @lauraedbrook Dr Gráinne Rice/ @Grainnerr.bsky.social @Belindafindus Joanne Tatham Annette Kuhn ozge @ArtandSlowFilm maria shonamain isobelharbison Sarah Durcan @lisa_g_dub Declan Long Melissa Gronlund Liz Suburbia Rehananana 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Tom Haines Bea Iarbhean Mhic Mhathúna Anne Tallentire Marisa J. Futernick Francesca Wade N M Llorens elvia wilk Laura McLean-Ferris Of course you made a GIF, Orit. In lieu of anything to do: Tom Overton, Hermione Hoby, Cooking Sections, Emmie Francis, cal revely-calder and, as his Ruins collection lingers in the background, Brian Dillon. Go forth.
Our Spring Study Day *Stepping Back Into The Spotlight* TRCH has begun!
We're excited to learn about the venue & hear from Tom Overton (@BarbicanCentre), Georgina Donahue
(today's host), Sian Williams (@UoB_Theatre_Col) & Dr Elizabeth Richards (@TheRSC)
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Harry Thorne oritgat Chris Fite-Wassilak @_maeveconnolly Sarah Neely Susannah Thompson @AdelePatrickGWL Zoe Strachan Lee Randall Prof Dee Heddon 🏳️🌈 Noel Patterson @FaithfullJohn Leela Soma Dr Hayleigh Barclay 🧙🏻♀️🔮🧹 Dr Kyla McDonald 🌿 Karen Boyle Helen de Main xerces Deborah Jackson @lauraedbrook Dr Gráinne Rice/ @Grainnerr.bsky.social @Belindafindus Joanne Tatham Annette Kuhn ozge @ArtandSlowFilm maria shonamain isobelharbison Sarah Durcan @lisa_g_dub Declan Long Melissa Gronlund Liz Suburbia Rehananana 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Tom Haines Bea Iarbhean Mhic Mhathúna Anne Tallentire Marisa J. Futernick Francesca Wade N M Llorens elvia wilk Laura McLean-Ferris Tom Overton Good riddance to the recipe exchanges. Those near and far: Lou Stoppard Katie Raissian :: کیتی Beniamino Ambrosi Elianna Kan Thessaly (王正谊) La Force Zack Graham
👍📕🏊 Painting and swimming: SWIMMING POOL by #JohnBerger and #LeonKossoff Agencia Balcells: 'As swimmers we share a kind of egalitarian anonymity.' Hans Balmes
Muge Sokmen Tom Overton
#JohnBerger a wonderful page on hedgehogs from John‘s correspondence with John Christie - with the question if Dürer ever draw one — Philip Hoare Tom Overton Yasmin Gunaratnam Teresa Pintó Cornellana 🎵📚🖍️🗓️🗝️➡️
Eliot Catherine Slessor Tom Overton pulled it down, then it was dismantled and the pieces put into a block of cement with only hands and face half sticking out. The sculptor said it was turning a celebration of tyranny into a powerful symbol of resistance.