John Berger

Writer, critic and artist John Berger (1926–2017) changed how many readers connect images with labour, power and ordinary experience. About Looking moves from animals and photographs to painting without treating vision as neutral; The Success and Failure of Picasso considers artistic invention alongside fame and politics. Pig Earth gathers stories from rural life and gives the peasant world its own rhythms rather than viewing it from a distance. Once in Europa continues that attention to work, migration and community, while And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos combines memory, place and intimacy in an essayistic form. Berger crosses criticism and fiction because each can ask who is seen, who is speaking and what history sits behind a surface. About Looking opens the visual field directly; Pig Earth shows the same ethical attention operating through story.