A woman stands before a blue screen in a museum.
The image asks who is allowed to look, and how meaning is shaped by the place that frames the act of seeing.
#Photography #Looking #Attention #WaysOfSeeing #Museum #QuietMoments #art #Seeing
#waysofseeing
A woman stands before a blue screen in a museum.
The image asks who is allowed to look, and how meaning is shaped by the place that frames the act of seeing.
#Photography #Looking #Attention #WaysOfSeeing #Museum #QuietMoments #art #Seeing
The image asks who is allowed to look, and how meaning is shaped by the place that frames the act of seeing.
#Photography #Looking #Attention #WaysOfSeeing #Museum #QuietMoments #art #Seeing
Love this blog; here's a beautiful mix of detailed observation and conceptual digression #SciComm #algae #dataviz #MartynKelly #LifeOnEarth #waysofseeing
https://microscopesandmonsters.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/eye-to-the-microscope/
Ways of Seeing
Life between the US and Ireland showed me how culture shapes what we notice. In America I kept seeing food ads repeat an idea, “You’re not going to believe how we found another way to add more cheese.” Back in Ireland I noticed how uneasy men were about a simple hug. Life in two cultures reveals insight and trains the mind in ways others overlook. Stays. Our Third Culture training explores this with real structure and purpose. DM for details.
Ways of Seeing
Sometimes the simple act of being forced to wait changes how we think. When we can’t hurry the moment, our attention sharpens. Light shifts, clouds move, and what was once background becomes the only thing that matters. The waiting itself starts to quiet the mind.
When your body feels overloaded, looki at something that moves slowly, like a cloud, and follow it. While your attention rests there, you may find the rest of the world fades a little.
“Seeing comes before words”*…
Five years ago, (R)D featured John Berger’s award-winning– and more to the point, hugely-influential– television series Ways of Seeing (in some ways a response to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series). The broadcast was followed by an adaptation of Berger’s scripts that became a book of the same name.
Now that hugely influential work is available in a gorgeous web version…
Based on the 1972 BBC series and comprised of 7 essays, 3 of which are entirely pictoral, Ways of Seeing is a seminal work which examines how we view art…
A beautiful new way to enjoy (and learn from) a classic: “Ways of Seeing“
* John Berger (the first line of Ways of Seeing)
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As we ponder perspective, we might pause to celebrate the induction, on this date in 2005, into the the National Toy Hall of Fame of a plaything that invites constant creativity– the cardboard box.
#art #cardboardBox #civilization #culture #history #JohnBerger #KennethClark #literature #NationalToyHallOfFame #philosophy #toys #WaysOfSeeing
"Sometimes I say to myself that the storyteller is Death's secretary"
Most well-known for his excellent "Ways of Seeing" TV series and books—amongst other works—John Berger also wrote and presented 'About Time'.
It's a collection of meditations on time, death, story telling, the nature of being, the Present and Berger's humanism, as always, shines through.
🤔📖 Fancy a lunchtime read? I went to Paris to see the Hockney exhibition—here’s what I found 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/genius-loci-... #Hockney #Art #Paris #WaysofSeeing
Genius Loci Digest: 15 August ...
🇫🇷My time in Paris taught me that ‘The world is larger, stranger, more astonishing than the labels we pin to it. Labels crumble like brittle shells when wonder presses against them.’ The full, wonder-woven story 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/genius-loci-... #amwriting #Paris #waysofseeing
Genius Loci Digest: 8 August 2...
Mary's nephew is in the band, as is her niece's husband. #FullDisclosure #notes #connections #music #WaysOfSeeing
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Madun olarak temel hakları geniş muktedir toplum tarafından alınıp yavaş veya hızlı ölüme mahkûm edilen, ama hayatta bir şekilde kalan, kalabilmiş, madun birey ve azınlıkların eğip bükmeden hakikate yakın durarak konuşması gerekir diye düşünüyorum. Elzem olan yapısal direnişi gündemden düşürmemeli de. Madun öznellikleri ve durumlarından ana akıma ve kurumlara dönülemez, eklemlenmemeli iktidara.
A little fast #sketch I made a while back. Reposting here, hoping to build a #new #social #network. Looking for other #artist to #connect hoping to build an #inspiring timeline of people making #beautiful things or a beautiful diffrence.
#brush #brushpen #figuredrawing #art #waysofseeing #newbeginnings
[Another side note related to a previous post] I remember seeing the full moon above Tokyo for the first time. The hue and light of the moon seemed softer to the one I'm used to. So maybe when I look at a soft-looking moon in a Japanese artwork, it's actually an accurate representation of what the viewer is experiencing, which I hadn't known before. [1/2] #art #WaysOfSeeing
[Side note related to previous post] Another thing I find really curious is how artists convey the world through their art in a way that's related to the way they perceive it. I remember seeing a photograph taken by an artist that usually drew humans with thin, long limbs. The photograph showed the shadow of a person at dusk, and the projection on the ground had elongated, thin limbs, similar to those of his drawings. #art #WaysOfSeeing
Ways of Teething, with apologies to #JohnBerger
@peter these are all good questions and I appreciate them.
i believe if an image is sexist is not a subjective judgement but more or less objective fact - there are probably borderline cases.
yes, I believe if the DJ herself has put her on the cover that is great in many respects, but then again, what kind of pose, what kind of vibe?
Honestly, I just hate it when the image clearly sexually objectifies women's bodies, regardless of who had the agency.
Los críticos de teatro deberíamos ver/leer más crítica de arte. Lo pienso cada año cuando vuelvo, por trabajo y por placer, sobre los 4 capítulos del #WaysOfSeeing de John Berger. Quién reseñara así...
https://elpais.com/quadern/2023-07-01/tornar-a-john-berger.html
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportsmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.”
~ John Lubbock
#7books that have been formative: #tintin Prisoners of the Sun by #herge, which set me off loving #comics; Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, which got me thinking about experience & awful adults; #persuasion by #janeausten, which taught me about love, patience, and longing; #middlemarch by George Eliot, for genius & incredible sentences; #infinitejest by David #fosterwallace, which taught me sincerity is preferable to irony; #waysofseeing by John Berger; #hamlet, obvs. #books #bookstodon
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