AND OUR FACES, MY HEART, BRIEF AS PHOTOS by John Berger [1984]

Writers and Readers, London, 1984 | Softcover, 102pp | 14 x 21 cm | First Edition

John Berger’s most elliptical, luminous work — part essay, part poem, part love letter to language itself. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos moves restlessly between memory and mortality, intimacy and abstraction, collapsing the boundaries between autobiography, philosophy and art criticism. This is Berger at his most distilled: unflinching, tender, political and deeply human.

Published in 1984 by the radical Writers and Readers press, it is as much an artefact of the era as it is a timeless meditation. A text for readers who want to be unsettled and reassembled, who understand that thought can be as brief — and as enduring — as a photograph.

Excellent - as new - condition: Unread copy. Just a touch of age-tanning along the edges of the covers.