John Berger

Person · Open Library

Born

5 Nov 1926

Died

2 Jan 2017

Works

380

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1947-11-28

Active to

1992-08-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

489

Total plays

1,733

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,687x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,733x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,358x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,340x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,860x

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Quotes

• “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
• “Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent. Gradually it became evident that an image could outlast what it represented; it then showed how something or somebody had once looked – and thus by implication how the subject had once been seen by other people. Later still the specific vision of the image-maker was also recognized as part of the record. An image became a record of how X had seen Y.”
• “The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.”
• “Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion. The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless.”

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Wikidata facts

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