The book published to accompany the series has never been out of print and has had a profound influence on popular understanding of art criticism and visual culture. The programmes explored Walter Benjamin's ideas about the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction the female nude and the male gaze oil painting, status and ownership advertising, art and commerce. Our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing".
The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. Across a series of four half-hour episodes, Berger talked about how we look at art, and why it matters: "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
First broadcast in 1972 on BBC Two, Ways of Seeing was a collaboration between the writer John Berger and director Mike Dibb.
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