Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Quotes:
"Oil paintings, before it was anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art form, is derived from the principle that you are what you have."
"The oil painting was thought of as a permanent record. One of the pleasures of painting gave to its owner was the thought that it would convey the image of his present to the future of his descendants."
On Photography
Quotes:
"To collect photographs is to collect the world."
"While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency."
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