"One of the world's most influential art, critics ... Berger sees clearly with fresh surprise yet profound
understanding."
--Washington Times
Random House, Incorporated
March, 2000
Summary
There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined
is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of our most thoughtful
and eloquent interrogators of the visual offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our
most straightforward art form.
As constructed by John Berger and the renowned Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, that theory includes images as well
as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and memoir.
Another Way of Telling explores the tension between the photographer and the photographed, between the
picture and its viewers, between the filmed moment and the memories that it so resembles. Combining the moral vision
of the critic and the practical engagement of the photographer, Berger and Mohr have produced a work that expands
the frontiers of criticism first charged by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag.