:John Berger

{{Infobox writer

|name = John Berger

|image = John Berger-2009 (6).jpg

|caption = Berger in 2009

|birth_name = John Peter Berger{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/arts/design/john-berger-provocative-art-critic-dies-at-90.html |title=John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90 |work=The New York Times |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2017}}

|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|11|5|df=y}}

|birth_place = London, England

|death_date = {{death date and age|2017|1|2|1926|11|5|df=y}}

|death_place = Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France

|occupation = {{hlist|Novelist|critic|painter|poet}}

|language = English

|education = St Edward's School, Oxford

|alma_mater = Chelsea School of Art
Central School of Art and Design

|genre = Writer

|spouse =

|children = 3

|awards = James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Booker Prize (1972)

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John Peter Berger ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɜr|dʒ|ər}} {{respell|BUR|jər}}; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential. He lived in France for over fifty years.

Early life

Berger was born on 5 November 1926 in Stoke Newington, London,{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-obituary |title=John Berger obituary |work=The Guardian |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2017}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/06/i-think-dead-are-us-john-berger-88 |title=I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88 |work=The New Statesman |date=11 June 2015 |access-date=3 January 2017}} the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/feb/13/books.guardianreview8 |title=Contented exile |work=The Guardian |date=13 February 1999 |access-date=3 January 2017}}

His grandfather was from Trieste, now Italy,The Books Interview: John Berger: [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/01/palestine-rema-israel-england The Books Interview: John Berger], accessdate: 2 January 2017 and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-religious Jew who adopted Catholicism,Andy Merrifield, John Berger, Reaktion Books (2013), p. 29 had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/30/john-berger-at-90-interview-storyteller |title=John Berger: 'If I'm a storyteller it's because I listen' |work=The Guardian |date=30 October 2016 |access-date=3 January 2017}} and an OBE.{{cite web|author=Duncan O'Connor |url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=380 |title=Literary Encyclopedia | John Berger |website=Litencyc.com |access-date=3 January 2017}}

Berger was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. He served in the British Army during the Second World War from 1944 to 1946.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_YatfLrgnMC&q=John+berger |title=The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English |last=Ray |first=Ed. Mohit K. |publisher=Atlantic Publishers |year=2007 |isbn=978-81-269-0832-5 |page=48}} He enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design in London.

Career

Berger began his career as a painter{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38492516 |title=John Berger, art critic and author of Ways of Seeing, dies |publisher=BBC |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2017}} and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. His art has been shown at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester Galleries in London.

Berger taught drawing at St Mary's teacher training college. He later became an art critic, publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman. His Marxist literary criticism and strongly stated opinions on modern art combined to make him a controversial figure early in his career.{{cite web|title=Berger, John|url=http://arthistorians.info/bergerj|website=arthistorians.info}}{{Cite news |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-smuggling-operation-john-bergers-theory-of-art/ |title=A Smuggling Operation: John Berger's Theory of Art |work=LARB |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=5 January 2017}} As a statement of political commitment, he titled an early collection of essays Permanent Red.{{Cite magazine |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/126679/many-faces-john-berger |title=The Many Faces of John Berger |magazine=New Republic |date=30 December 2015 |access-date=5 January 2017}}

Berger was never a formal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): rather he was a close associate of it and its front, the Artists' International Association (AIA), until the latter disappeared in 1953. He was active in the Geneva Club, a discussion group that appears to have overlapped with British communist circles in the 1950s.{{Cite web|url=http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1140/berger-and-stalinism/|title=Berger and Stalinism|last=Parker|first=Lawrence|date=2 February 2017|website=Weekly Worker|access-date=19 January 2018}}

Publishing

In 1958, Berger published his first novel, A Painter of Our Time,{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90 |title=John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90 |work=The Guardian |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2017}} which tells the story of the disappearance of Janos Lavin, a fictional exiled Hungarian painter, and his diary's discovery by an art critic friend called John.{{Cite news |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/80124/john-berger-five-key-works-by-the-late-art-critic |title=John Berger: Five key works by the late art critic |work=The Week |date=3 January 2017 |access-date=4 January 2017}} The work was withdrawn by the publisher under pressure from the Congress for Cultural Freedom a month after its publication. His next novels were The Foot of Clive and Corker's Freedom; both of which presented an urban English life of alienation and melancholy. Berger moved to Quincy in Mieussy in Haute-Savoie, France, in 1962 due to his distaste for life in Britain.

In 1972, the BBC broadcast his four-part television series Ways of Seeing and published its accompanying text, a book of the same name. The first episode functions as an introduction to the study of images; it was derived in part from Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0141917989|title=Ways of Seeing|last=Berger|first=John|publisher=BBC and Penguin Books|year=1972|isbn=0-14-191798-9|location=London|pages=34}} The subsequent episodes concern the image of woman as a sexualized object in Western culture, expressions of property ownership and wealth in European oil painting, and modern advertising.Berger, John (writer) and Michael Dibb (producer). Ways of Seeing. British Broadcasting Corporation, 1972. The series, the first of several close collaborations with director Mike Dibb, has had a lasting influence, and in particular introduced the concept of the male gaze, as part of his analysis of the treatment of the nude in European painting. It soon became popular among feminists, including the British film critic Laura Mulvey, who used it to critique traditional media representations of the female character in cinema.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CMKs_2DRkF8C&pg=PA75 A Companion to Women in the Ancient World], edited by Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon, p. 75, 2012, Wiley, {{ISBN|1-4443-5500-7}}, 9781444355000

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Berger's novel G., a picaresque romance set in Europe in 1898, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972.{{cite web |title=G |website=The Booker Prizes |date=8 June 1972 |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/g |access-date=7 November 2022}}

Berger donated half the Booker cash prize to the British Black Panthers, and retained the other half to support his work on the study on migrant workers, which became A Seventh Man; he asserted that both endeavors represented aspects of his political struggle.{{cite news |first=Michael |last=McNay |title=Berger turns tables on Booker |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1972/nov/24/mainsection.fromthearchive |work=The Guardian |date=24 November 1972 |access-date=5 December 2009 |location=London}} In his acceptance speech at the Booker Prize ceremony, Berger said the prize's sponsor, Booker McConnell, had a long history of slavery and exploitation in the Caribbean, and this was why he wanted to donate the money to the British Black Panthers and fund the writing of his book on migrant workers.[https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/i-have-to-turn-the-prize-against-itself-john-bergers-1972-booker-prize]

Berger's sociological writings include A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (1967){{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/07/john-sassall-country-doctor-a-fortunate-man-john-berger-jean-mohr |title=John Berger's A Fortunate Man: a masterpiece of witness |work= The Guardian |date=7 February 2015 |access-date=4 January 2017}} and A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe (1975).{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/18/seventh-man-john-berger-review |title=A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe by John Berger and Jean Mohr – review |work= The Guardian |date=18 December 2010 |access-date=4 January 2017}}

Berger and photographer Jean Mohr, his frequent collaborator, sought to document and understand the experiences of peasants.{{Cite book |title=A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe |last1=Berger |first1=John |last2=Mohr |first2=Jean |last3=Blomberg |first3=Sven |publisher=Verso |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-84467-649-1}}Read an excerpt from the book here: {{Cite journal|title=The Seventh Man|journal=Race & Class|last=Berger|first=John|volume=16|issue=2|pages=251–257|year=1975|doi=10.1177/030639687501600303|s2cid=144922808}}

Their subsequent book, Another Way of Telling, discusses and illustrates their documentary technique and treats the theory of photography through Berger's essays and Mohr's photographs.{{cite web|title=ANOTHER WAY OF TELLING|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/12330/another-way-of-telling-by-john-berger/9780679737247/|website=Penguin Random House}} His studies of individual artists include The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965), a survey of that modernist's career, and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969).

In the 1970s, Berger collaborated on three films with the Swiss director Alain Tanner: He wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre (1971), The Middle of the World (1974), and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976).Christian Dimitriu, Alain Tanner, Paris: Henri Veyrier, 1985, pp. 125–134. His major fictional work of the 1980s, the trilogy Into Their Labours (consisting of the novels Pig Earth, Once in Europa, and Lilac and Flag),{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RbC8CgAAQBAJ&q=trilogy+into+their+labours |title=On John Berger: Telling Stories |publisher=BRILL |year=2015 |isbn=978-90-04-30811-4 |page=24}} treats the European peasant experience from its farming roots to contemporary economic and political displacement and urban poverty.

In 1974, Berger co-founded the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd in London with Arnold Wesker, Lisa Appignanesi, Richard Appignanesi, Chris Searle, Glenn Thompson, Siân Williams, and others.{{cite web|url=http://www.paraprincipiantes.com/html/quienes.shtml |title=Libros para Principiantes: Quienes somos |website=Paraprincipiantes.com |access-date=3 January 2017}} The cooperative was active until the early 1980s.{{Cite news |url=http://aalbc.com/reviews/remembering_glenn_thompson.htm |title=Remembering Glenn Thompson |work=African American Literature Book Club |access-date=5 January 2017}}

In later essays, Berger wrote about photography, art, politics, and memory. He published in The Shape of a Pocket a correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos,{{Cite news |url=https://www.publico.pt/2017/01/02/culturaipsilon/noticia/morreu-john-berger-um-artista-total-1756862 |title=Morreu John Berger, um artista (e um espectador) total |work=Publico |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=4 January 2017}} and penned short stories that appeared in The Threepenny Review and The New Yorker. His sole volume of poetry is Pages of the Wound, though other volumes, such as the theoretical essays And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos contain poetry. His 2007 collection of essays on the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance, [http://socialistreview.org.uk/316/hold-everything-dear Hold Everything Dear], was titled after the poem by Gareth Evans. His later novels include To the Wedding, a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCIlg2dR5q0C&q=To+the+wedding |title=Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s |last=Hertel |first=Ralf |publisher=Rodopi |year=2005 |isbn=978-90-420-1864-8 |page=74}} and King: A Street Story, a novel about homelessness and shantytown life told from the perspective of a stray dog. Initially, Berger insisted that his name be kept off the cover and title page of King, wanting the novel to be received on its own merits.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4724662/Portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-wild-old-man.html |title=Portrait of the artist as a wild old man |work=The Telegraph |date=23 July 2001 |access-date=4 January 2017}}

Berger's 1980 volume About Looking includes an influential chapter, "Why Look at Animals?"{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TmbF3ZgvuoC&q=why+look+at+animals%3F |title=Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction |last=McCance |first=Dawne |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4384-4534-2 |page=45}} It is cited by numerous scholars in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies. The chapter was later reproduced in a Penguin Great Ideas selection of essays of the same title.

Berger's novel From A to X was long-listed for the 2008 Booker Prize.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2008/jul/29/bookerprize|title=Booker longlist boost for first-time novelists|author=Michelle Pauli|work=the Guardian|access-date=2 January 2015}} In Bento's Sketchbook (2011) Berger combines extracts from Baruch Spinoza, sketches, memoir, and observations in a book that contemplates the relationship of materialism to spirituality. According to Berger, what could be seen as a contradiction "is beautifully resolved by Spinoza, who shows that it is not a duality, but in fact an essential unity".{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/apr/23/john-berger-life-in-writing |title=John Berger: a life in writing |first=Nicholas |last=Wroe |date=22 April 2011 |work=The Guardian |url-access=limited |access-date=22 August 2021}} The book has been described as "a characteristically sui generis work combining an engagement with the thought of the 17th-century lens grinder, draughtsman, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza, with a study of drawing and a series of semi-autobiographical sketches". Among his last works is Confabulations (essays, 2016).{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/john-berger-dead-booker-prize-winning-author-art-critic-dies-aged-90-a7506346.html |title=John Berger dead: Booker Prize-winning author and art critic dies aged 90 |work=Independent |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=4 January 2017}}

Other work

In 1999, Berger voiced both twin brother characters Archie and Albert Crisp in the video game Grand Theft Auto: London 1969.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60097/RIP-John-Berger-Famous-British-Novelist-Art-Critic-and-Secret-GTA-Lond|title=RIP John Berger, Famous British Novelist, Art Critic and Secret GTA: London Villain|publisher=Rockstar Games|date=3 January 2017|access-date=4 January 2017}}

He was a member of the Support Committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/about-rtop/patrons|title=Patrons {{!}} Russell Tribunal on Palestine|website=www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com|access-date=8 January 2017}}

Personal life

Berger married three times, first to artist and illustrator Patricia (Pat) Marriott in 1949; they had no children together and the couple divorced. In the mid-1950s, he married the Russian Anya Bostock (née Anna Sisserman), with whom he had two children, Katya Berger and Jacob Berger; the couple divorced in the mid-1970s. Soon afterwards, he married Beverly Bancroft, with whom he had one child, Yves. Beverly died in 2013.

Berger died at his home in Antony, France, on 2 January 2017 at the age of 90.{{cite news|title=John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90|work=The Guardian|date=2 January 2017}}{{cite news|url = http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_JOHN_BERGER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-02-15-21-08|title = John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90|agency = Associated Press|date = 2 January 2017|access-date = 2 January 2017|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170103140225/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_JOHN_BERGER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-02-15-21-08|archive-date = 3 January 2017|df = dmy-all}}

Legacy

In July 2009 Berger donated his archive of 369 files, nine boxes and one book to the British Library. The contents include literary manuscripts, drafts, unpublished material and correspondence.[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002358665 John Berger Archive], archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 7 May 2020

Awards

1972 Booker Prize{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/booker-prize-winning-author-john-berger-dies-aged-90/ |title=Booker prize-winning author John Berger dies aged 90 |work=The Telegraph |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2017}}
1972 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1991 Petrarca-Preis{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C73WAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Heute+lebt+John+Berger+in+einen+Dorf+der+Haute-Savoie.+1989+erhielt+er+den%22 |title=Johann Sebastian Bach: der geometrische Komponist, Issues 764–766 |last=Bürkle |first=Christoph |publisher=Niggli |year=2006 |page=83|isbn=978-3-03717-022-9 }}
2009 Golden PEN Award{{cite web |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/berger-picks-golden-pen-award.html |title=Berger picks up Golden PEN award |work=The Bookseller |author=Catherine Neilan |date=8 December 2009 |access-date=3 December 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature |title=Golden Pen Award, official website |publisher=English PEN |access-date=3 December 2012 |archive-date=21 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121020544/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ |url-status=dead }}

Literary works

= Fiction =

==Novels and novella==

A Painter of Our Time (1958){{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/apr/03/art.art1 |title=A radical returns |work= The Guardian |date=3 April 2005 |access-date=4 January 2017}}
Marcel Frishman (with George Besson) (1958){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&q=John+Berger |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85743-217-6 |page=150}}
The Foot of Clive (1962)
Corker's Freedom (1964)
G. (1972){{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/books/love-among-the-peasantry.html?pagewanted=all |title=LOVE AMONG THE PEASANTRY |work=The New York Times |date=5 April 1987 |access-date=4 January 2017}}
Into Their Labours trilogy (1991): Pig Earth (1979), Once in Europa (1987), Lilac and Flag (1990)
To the Wedding (1995)
King: A Street Story (1999)
Here is Where We Meet (2005)
From A to X (2008){{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Cohen-t.html?_r=0 |title='From A to X: A Story in Letters,' by John Berge |work=The New York Times |date=31 October 2008 |access-date=4 January 2017}}

== Plays ==

A Question of Geography (with Nella Bielski) (1987){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrmaSYfLOQ8C&q=A+question+of+geography |title=Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory |last=Soja |first=Edward W. |publisher=Verso |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-86091-936-0 |edition=illustrated, reprint |page=21}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdbU0r44egcC&q=A+question+of+geography |title=John Berger |last=Merrifield |first=Andy |publisher=Reaktion Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-86189-942-2 |edition=illustrated |page=159}}
Les Trois Chaleurs (1985){{cite web|title=John Berger|url=http://www.lesarchivesduspectacle.net/?IDX_Personne=8820|website=www.lesarchivesduspectacle.net| date=5 November 1926 }}
Boris (1983)John Berger, [https://granta.com/boris/ "Boris"], Granta 9, 1 September 1983.
Goya's Last Portrait (with Nella Bielski) (1989){{cite web|title=Portraits: John Berger on Artists|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/02/art_books/john-berger-on-artists|website=www.brooklynrail.org|date=3 February 2016 }}

== Screenplays ==

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (with Alain Tanner) (1976){{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/john-berger-influential-british-art-critic-novelist-dies-at-90/2017/01/03/502148ee-d1cf-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html |title=John Berger, influential British art critic, novelist, dies at 90 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=3 January 2017 |access-date=4 January 2017}}
La Salamandre (The Salamander) (with Alain Tanner) (1971){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2U44AAAAQBAJ&q=La+Salamandre |title=The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies |last=Talbot |first=Toby |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-231-51982-3 |edition=illustrated |page=110}}
Le Milieu du monde (The Middle of the World) (with Alain Tanner) (1974)
Play Me Something (with Timothy Neat) (1989){{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/tilda-swinton-on-making-the-seasons-in-quincy-four-short-films-about-maverick-artist-and-thinker-a6875541.html |title=Tilda Swinton on making 'The Seasons in Quincy', four short films about maverick artist and thinker John Berger |work=Independent |date=15 February 2016 |access-date=4 January 2017}}
Une ville à Chandigarh (A City at Chandigarh) (1966){{Cite news |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/the-glory-and-the-dream/ |title= The glory and the dream |work=The Indian Express |date=13 March 2016 |access-date=4 January 2017}}

== Poetry ==

Pages of the Wound (1994)
Collected Poems (2014){{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/arundhathi-subramaniam-reviews-john-bergers-collected-poems/article7742642.ece |title=A review of John Berger's Collected Poems |work=The Hindu |date=10 October 2015 |access-date=5 January 2017}}

= Non-fiction =

== Essays and articles ==

The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles (1972)
About Looking (1980)
A Fortunate Man (with Jean Mohr) (1967)
Keeping a Rendezvous (1992)
Photocopies (1996)
Selected Essays (Geoff Dyer, ed.) (2001)
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (2007; 2nd ed. 2016){{Cite book |title=Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance|publisher=Verso |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-84467-254-7}}
Why Look at Animals? (2009){{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/19/why-look-animals-john-berger |title=Why Look at Animals? by John Berger |work= The Guardian |date=19 September 2009 |access-date=4 January 2017}}
Confabulations (Essays) (2016)
Meanwhile (2008)
Swimming Pool (with Leon Kossoff) (Introduction by Deborah Levy. Postscript by Yves Berger. Berger's Texts selected by Teresa Pintó. Book design by John Christie) (2020)

==Art and art criticism ==

Permanent Red (1960) (Published in the United States in altered form in 1962 as Toward Reality: Essays in Seeing)
The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965)
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R (1969)
The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays (1969)
Ways of Seeing (with Mike Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox and Richard Hollis) (1972)
The Sense of Sight (1985){{cite web|title=Sense of Sight By John Berger|url=https://www.agenciabalcells.com/en/authors/works/john-berger/the-sense-of-sight/|website=Carmen Balcells Literary Agency}}
Albrecht Dürer: Watercolours and Drawings (1994){{Cite book |title=Albrecht Dürer: Watercolours and Drawings|publisher=Taschen |year=1994 |isbn=978-3-8228-8575-8}}
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger) (1996)
The Shape of a Pocket (2001)
Berger on Drawing (2005){{Cite book |title=Berger on Drawing|publisher=Occasional Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-9548976-1-1}}
Lying Down to Sleep (with Katya Berger) (2010){{Cite book |title=Lying Down to Sleep|publisher=Maurizio Corraini |year=2010 |isbn=978-88-7570-261-8}}
Bento's Sketchbook (2011){{Cite news |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/11/22/john-berger-on-%e2%80%98bento%e2%80%99s-sketchbook%e2%80%99/#more-23487 |title=John Berger on 'Bento's Sketchbook' |work=The Paris Review |date=22 November 2011 |access-date=4 January 2017}}
Understanding a Photograph (Geoff Dyer, ed.) (2013)John Berger, [http://aperture.org/shop/understanding-a-photograph-john-berger-books Understanding a Photograph], Aperture. {{ISBN|978-1-59711-256-7}}.
Daumier: The Heroism of Modern Life (2013){{Cite book |title=Daumier: The Heroism of Modern Life|publisher=Harry N. Abrams |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-907533-32-7}}
Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Tom Overton, ed.) (2015)
Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Tom Overton, ed.) (2016){{cite web|title=Landscapes John Berger on Art By John Berger|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540880/landscapes-by-john-berger/9781784785840/|website=Penguin Random House}}
Seeing Through Drawing {{cite web|url= https://www.objectifpress.co.uk/seeing-through-drawing|title=Seeing Through Drawing. A Celebration of John Berger |date=8 July 2017 |website= |publisher= Objectif|access-date= 29 October 2024}}

== Other ==

A Seventh Man (with Jean Mohr) (1975)
Another Way of Telling (with Jean Mohr) (1982)
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (1984)
The White Bird (U.S. title: The Sense of Sight) (1985)
Isabelle: A Story in Shots (with Nella Bielski) (1998)
At the Edge of the World (with Jean Mohr) (1999){{cite web |url=http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781861890481&sf1=contributor&st1=%22Jean+Mohr%22&m=1&dc=1 |title=At the Edge of the World |publisher=Reaktion Books |access-date=5 January 2017 |archive-date=6 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106011827/http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781861890481&sf1=contributor&st1=%22Jean+Mohr%22&m=1&dc=1 |url-status=dead }}
I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence between John Berger and John Christie (with John Christie) (2001){{Cite book |title=I Send You this Cadmium Red: A Correspondence Between John Berger and John Christie|publisher=ACTAR |year=2000 |isbn=978-84-95273-32-1}}
My Beautiful (with Marc Trivier) (2004){{Cite book |title=My Beautiful|publisher=Mondadori Bruno |year=2008 |isbn=978-88-6159-114-1}}
The Red Tenda of Bologna (2007){{cite web|title=John Berger limited edition|url=http://www.thedrawbridge.org.uk/news/2007/05/john_berger_exclusive.html|website=www.thedrawbridge.org|access-date=5 January 2017|archive-date=4 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804010607/http://www.thedrawbridge.org.uk/news/2007/05/john_berger_exclusive.html|url-status=dead}}
War with No End (with Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, Joe Sacco and Haifa Zangana) (2007){{cite web|title=War With No End|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/233073/war-with-no-end-by-phyllis-bennis/9781844671847/|website=Penguin Random House}}
From I to J (with Isabel Coixet) (2009){{Cite book |title=From I to J|publisher=Actar-D Bruno |year=2009}}
Railtracks (with Anne Michaels) (2011){{Cite book |title=Railtracks|publisher=Counterpoint |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-61902-072-6}}
Cataract (with Selçuk Demirel) (2012){{cite web|title=Review: Cataract|url=http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/cataract/|website=www.macleans.ca|date=February 2013 }}
Flying Skirts: An Elegy (with Yves Berger) (2014){{Cite book |title=Flying Skirts: An Elegy|publisher=Occasional Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-9564786-9-6}}
Cuatro horizontes (Four Horizons) (with Sister Lucia Kuppens, Sister Telchilde Hinkley and John Christie) (2015){{cite web|title=Cuatro horizontes Una visita a la capilla de Ronchamp de Le Corbusier|url=http://ggili.com/es/tienda/productos/cuatro-horizontes|website=ggili.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317214327/http://ggili.com/es/tienda/productos/cuatro-horizontes|archive-date=17 March 2016}}
Lapwing & Fox (Conversations between John Berger and John Christie) (2016){{cite web|title=Lapwing & Fox, conversations between John Berger and John Christie|url=https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/artists-books-14-lapwing-fox-conversations-between-john-berger-and-john-christie|website=www.a-n.co.uk}}
John by Jean: Fifty Years of Friendship (Jean Mohr, ed.) (2016){{cite web|title=John by Jean: Fifty Years of Friendship|url=http://www.occasionalpress.net/publications.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060815134455/http://www.occasionalpress.net/publications.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 August 2006|website=www.occasionalpress.net}}
A Sparrow's Journey: John Berger Reads Andrey Platonov (CD: 44:34 & 81-page book with Robert Chandler and Gareth Evans), London: House Sparrow Press in association with the London Review Bookshop (2016){{cite web|title=A Sparrow's Journey: John Berger reads Andrey Platonov|url=http://www.housesparrowpress.com/product/a-sparrows-journey/|website=House Sparrow Press}}
Smoke (with Selçuk Demirel) (2017)
What Time Is It? (with Selçuk Demirel) (Maria Nadotti, ed.) (2019)
Over To You. Letters Between a Father & Son. Tate Publishing (2024)

=Film=

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016), directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz.
Taskafa: Stories of the Street (2013), directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

Reviews

Harkness, Allan (1983), Berger: A Seventh Man?, review of A Seventh Man and Another Way of Telling, in Hearn, Sheila G.(ed.), Cencrastus No. 12, Spring 1983, pp. 46 & 47, {{issn|0264-0856}}

References

External links

[https://www.johnbergerhome.com John Berger Home Official Website]
[http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/postscript-john-berger-1926-2017 Postscript: John Berger, 1926–2017]
[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/gonzalez/1988/xx/berger.html 'Introduction to John Berger on Picasso'] Mike Gonzalez in International Socialism 40 (1988).
[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1988/isj2-040/berger.html Defending Picasso's late work] by John Berger, International Socialism 40 (1988).
[https://www.versobooks.com/authors/485-john-berger Verso Books author page]
[http://www.bl.uk/johnberger/ John Berger Archive at the British Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103110536/http://www.bl.uk/johnberger/ |date=3 January 2021 }}