‘A.book made by John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, ‘Michael Dibb, Richard Hollis Mes PWNS air, So WAYS OF SEEING ‘based on the BBC television serias with JOHN BERGER British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin BooksNote to the reader -This book has been made by five of us. Our staring point wes some of tho iene contained in the tleaslon Maes Gening. We have tried to oxtendl and elaborate sar “They have influenced not only what we say bat ie as roowact about tying ey The carried euch to do with our purpose as the argu contained within it. "The book consists of seven 1 Four of th ‘only images. These purely fn and on various ments ‘the verbal essays. it "o information at a is given Sometime images reproduced because H asemed {0 0 Sey soar information might distract from the poles boi ‘made. ‘can be found in the List Tall cases, however, this information i a eseerveriuced wich be pried atthe end ot tne Noo vie of the essays protends to deal with more chan cartin napucts of each eubject perticlary thoes spect than corrate relief by a modern historical consciousnecs, ‘eeoeet palais fas bean te amet a Proves Merton‘Sesing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it oan speak. ‘But there Is also another sense in which seeing ‘comes before words. It in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, ‘but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it, The relation between what we sea and what we know is, over settlod. Each evening we sce the sun set. We know ‘that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the ‘explanation, never quite fits the sight. The Surrealist painter Magritte commented on this always-present gap betweon words and seeing in a painting called The Key of Dreams