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Image and ideology. Some thoughts on Berger’s Another Way of Telling

David Leupold

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“All photographs are of the past, yet in them, an instant of the past is arrested so that, unlike a lived past, it can never lead to the present.” (p. 86)

For me this introductory remark by Berger in his work Another Way of Telling (1995) was particularly mind-provoking as his idea of “the shock of…

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