Photocopies: Encounters
John Berger
192 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0679755179
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Language: English
Publish: 890121600000
ArtArt and PhotographyBritish LiteratureEssaysFictionLiteraturePhotographyShort Stories
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twenty-nine “photocopies” teach us about lying and self-invention, dignity and tenderness, charity and courage. Overflowing with the sights, sounds, and smells of life, Photocopies is a masterpiece from one of the most important chroniclers of our time.