A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

About John Berger

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His seminal Ways of Seeing was one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. His many books innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight include To the Wedding King and the Booker Prize-winning novel G. He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). In 2001 his collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published and his Understanding a Photograph edited by Geoff Dyer was published in 2013. He died aged 90 in January 2017.Jean Mohr is a Swiss documentary photographer. He has worked with the Red Cross the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization.He has produced 26 books of photography five with his literary collaborator John Berger and one with Edward Said. In 1956 he married Simone Turrettini a documentary filmmaker. They have two sons and four grandchildren.