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John Berger's gaze is incisive and avoids the normative point of view or any rule that could interfere with the surprising effect that the vision of things, whether everyday objects or facts, or that of a work of art art. Through a camera, modeling a sculpture or with the strokes of the brushes, the artist conveys to us a meaning that comes to be confused with our own gaze. Zoo animals, August Sanders' hat-wearing farmers, war witnesses, Magritte's spiritual objects, Giacometti's expressive figures or Rodin's hands sculpting a woman's body, under Berger's lens they become unique events that demand to be looked at and thought about with tailor-made parameters and with an ever-renewed sensibility.