How John Berger changed our way of seeing art – Yasmin Gunaratnam & Vikki Bell

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Berger considered how through history and visual representation the male gaze has constrained women. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths, University of London and Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths, University of London The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an idea but also an invitation to see and know …

Webinar with Gary, July 31st

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Notes from today’s webinar with Gary, not necessarily in order of importance, and referring my last weekly reflections – Week 7 and Week 8. Noting that I said that we had heavy humidity at Ta Prohm, the moisture affecting images from condensation could be interesting. Do I have such images, or did I keep ‘wiping the lens clean’? The backgrounds …