Understanding a Photograph Rulers & Templates to reckon with the biographical

to reckon with the biographical choices of the artists whose work sustains us

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John Berger was born in London in 1926

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Understanding a Photograph Rulers & Templates to reckon with the biographicalJohn 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 photographed with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness. The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer,