Poster of Cast and Crew in Ways Of Seeing - Season 1 - Episode 4 - Commercial Art

Ways Of Seeing - Season 1 - Commercial Art (Episode 4)

Plot: 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
Episode Aired On:
Saturday, January 29 1972
53 years ago