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Another Way of Telling,
by John Berger and
Jean Mohr.
Photographs:
“Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.
It is because photography has no language of its own. because it quotes, rather than translates, that it is said that the camera cannot lie.”
– John Berger.
“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, John Berger and the renowned Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, introduces a theory that includes images as well as words; analysis, 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.
