Ways of Seeing

I watched the first two episodes of Ways of seeing today, I;ve read the book before but I think that the television series, for me, makes it easier to understand. The book/tv series are based on writings and ideas formated by Walter Benjamin. There are 4 episodes altogether, about imagery, the female nude, advertising and oil painting. There are so many ideas and concepts which Berger talks about, it really helps to understand the world in which we live and why somethings are the way they are, I find it very interesting in terms of learning about the way I see things and the way the world affects us. In terms of the essay I am researching for visual culture, he talks a great deal about the reproduction of work and how it creates different experiences everytime it is reproduced or read in different contexts.



Ways of Seeing was a 1972 BBC television series created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb, that gave rise to a later book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.

The book Ways of Seeing was made by Berger and Dibb, along with Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis. [1] The book consists of seven numbered essays: four using words and images; and three essays using only images.[1]The book has contributed to feminist readings of popular culture, through essays that focus particularly on depictions of women in advertisements and oil paintings.[2]Ways of Seeing is considered to be a seminal text for current studies of visual culture and art history. Wikipedia.