What he said in his characteristic tone of sweet reasonableness was: Berger travelled as far as the hut in Ealing, west London where his programmes were filmed, and no farther. Ways of Seeing, made on the cheap for the BBC as four half-hour programmes, was the first series of its kind since Civilisation (1969), 13 one-hour episodes for which Kenneth Clark, its writer and presenter, and a BBC production team had travelled 80,000 miles through 13 countries exploring 2,000 years of the visual culture of the western world. This came in 1972, the year when Berger, who has died aged 90, broke through to real fame from his niche celebrity on the arts pages of the New Statesman.
The art critic, essayist and novelist John Berger threw down his challenge early in his television series Ways of Seeing.
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