John Berger Quote

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.


Selected Essays and Articles: The Look of Things (ed. 1972)


Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is...

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is...

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is...

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is...