Berger "Ways of Seeing"

Ways of Seeing by John Berger was a book that was published in 1972 and based on his successful BBC television series.
==Chapter Summaries==
Chapter 1 "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and
recognizes before it can speak."
Chapter 2 
Chapter 3 The female nude, nude vs nakedness
"A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.” Berger writes how oil paintings as possessions and objects usually featured female nudes for the male audience and patron.
Chapter 4 Oil painting as a possession
Oil paintings were painted for patrons as possessions. Many paintings had the female looking directly at the viewer, who was usually the owner of the painting, who was usually presumed as male. Even within a painting, if there was another male, the female would still be looking at the viewer. Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time is an example of such a painting, because while Venus' head is facing Cupid, her body is not. 
Chapter 5 
Chapter 6 Publicity (advertising) images
Berger writes about publicity and advertisement images as having visual rhetoric, a car is placed in front of a country home, and symbolizes house ownership and wealth. Images can be persuasive. 
==Four Part Television series==
For the original four part television series, see here:
Episode One: http://wam.wikia.com/wiki/John_Berger_%22Ways_of_Seeing%22,_Episode_1 
Episode Two: http://wam.wikia.com/wiki/John_Berger_Ways_of_Seeing_Part_2 
Episode Three: http://wam.wikia.com/wiki/Berger,_%E2%80%9CWays_of_Seeing,%E2%80%9D_Part_3 
Episode Four: http://wam.wikia.com/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing_Part_4-_John_Berger 
Source: http://waysofseeingwaysofseeing.com/ways-of-seeing-john-berger-5.7.pdf
Keywords
Visual
Visual Culture
Visual Rhetoric
Painting
Nude