Commercial Art
Show: Ways of Seeing --> Season: 1 - Ways of Seeing
AirDate: 1/29/1972
Runtime: 116
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Overview: In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reversed. An idealised potential for the viewer (via consumption) is considered a substitution for the actual reality depicted in old master portraits.