Wenn dir Das Leben der Bilder oder die Kunst des Sehens gefällt

This successor to John Berger's <i>Ways of Seeing</i>, written over the last ten years, searches for meaning within and beyond what is looked at. Why do zoos disappoint children? Why do we take snapshots of those we love? How do the media use photographs of agony? When an animal looks us in the eyes, what does that look mean? Berger describes how a sixteenth-century masterpiece he saw in the 1960s comes to look diffe…