In this essay from 1972 John Berger questions the effectiveness of graphic war photography and in doing so anticipates many of the debates about documentary that were soon to come. It was originally published in New Society magazine and subsequently reproduced in the 1980 collection, About Looking. Writing during the closing phases of the Vietnam [...]
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Photographs of Agony – John Berger (1972)
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