John Berger

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those...

John Berger jest popularnym angielskim krytykiem, dziennikarzem, eseistą i pisarzem, obecnie mieszkającym we Francji. Sposoby widzenia to bardzo znana w świecie anglosaskim książka wykorzystywana m.in. we wstępnych kursach historii sztuki na amerykańskich uniwersytetach. Napisana przystępnie, bogato ilustrowana, praca ta jest niejako elementarzem...

Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast. She survives her second life by smuggling goods across the border. But it is not until her third life, her afterlife, that she discovers the survival of something more than bare human...

A Street StoryIn this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog?--to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint Valry. Here, at the end of the twentieth century, among smashed trucks, old boilers, and broken washing machines, live Liberto, Malak, Jack,...

A Story of Crossing PathsOne of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novelsG. and To the Wedding among themwith a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. The dead...