I watched them last night, and I think this is still the most intelligent glance television - a medium, ostensibly, about looking, but actually very bad at looking intelligently at looking - has ever cast on the act of looking. A YouTube search yesterday revealed that - just in the last month - all four half-hour episodes of Ways of Seeing have gone up online. The YouTube embeds from the series were dead, but they were pretty short anyway. I linked to a short piece I'd written last year about Ways of Seeing. I made a passing reference, yesterday, to John Berger's TV series Ways of Seeing, and how the rightward swing of British art critic Peter Fuller could be mapped in the transition from his 1980 book "Seeing Berger" to his 1988 revision of it, entitled "Seeing Through Berger".
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