Ways of Seeing

“Ways of Seeing" Both John Berger and W.J.T. Mitchell have written essays on perceptions, and views on paintings and pictures. John Berger wrote “Ways of Seeing,” and Mitchell wrote “The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies.” Both Mitchell and Berger have some of the same ideas, and some different ideas. Both essays show good examples on perception and mystification. Berger wrote “Ways of Seeing.” In this essay Berger makes many points about perception and …

…a picture of Annie Mae Gudger, who is a woman having troubles. Mitchell asks “Why should we have the right to look on this woman and find her fatigue, pain, and anxiety beautiful? What gives us the right to look upon her, as if we were God’s spies?”(Mitchell 534). These questions are what the essay and picture make the readers ask. This I think is the relation of language and photography. This is connotation.