Tag: John Berger
What Happens in Between
Spectator III. Hinche, Haiti, May 2014. “I was in that state between waking and sleeping. From there you can wander towards either of the two. You can go away in a dream or you can open your eyes, be aware of your body, the room, the crows cawing in the snow outside the window. What […]
Platforms and Residences
Archway. City Gate. Junagadh, Gujerat, India. 1995. Scan from 8×10 negative. In the previous post, I mentioned how reading John Berger brought me to reading Andrei Platonov’s ‘Dzahn’. I got to Berger’s profound ‘Afterword’ for the New York Review Books Classics edition via another Berger piece, Ten Dispatches about Endurance in Face of Walls from his book, […]
Necessity
Rachel and Luca, Laurel Lake, NH. July , 2012 I am back home after a two-week family break. In between coffee breaks, floating on a clear lake, watching the shimmering light and being with my loved ones, I read two books – John Berger’s ‘Hold Everything Dear‘ (well, I re-read it) and Ernst Fischer’s ‘The […]
I Photograph To Remember
Pedro Meyer’s touching and elegiac remembrance of his parents has been reissued in various digital versions, twenty years after its initial publication as a CD-ROM. “I Photograph To Remember” reminds me of John Berger’s precious collection of essays in ‘Hold Everything Dear’, where, in talking about his friend Juan Muñoz and poet Nazim Hikmet, he […]