When he was a teenager, the artist Yves Berger played frequent ping pong games with his father, the art critic and essayist John Berger, in the hayloft of their home. John was in his 60s at the time, ...

In the centenary year of the great English art critic and writer John Berger, a look at a career spent insisting that changing our perspectives could change the world ...

A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling, published by Verso (all photos by Elisa Wouk Almino/Hyperallergic) As early as the mid-1950s, the art critic John Berger ...