Smoke

‘In these pages, Demirel rather brilliantly provides images of togetherness that make literal Berger’s language, albeit without sentimentalizing it; these pictures recall a world that once had coherent meaning...Berger and Demirel show that nearly anything can be part of shared experience...Smoke, [Berger] concludes, is a "sign of mankind"—evidence not of man’s endurance but of the promise of companionship and stories shared.’ Art in America John Berger, art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, joins forces again with Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel to create this charming pictorial essay on the cultural implications of smoking, suggesting – thought a series of brilliant inventive illustrations – that society's attitude to smoking is paradoxical and intolerant. A must-have for all fans of John Berger. With colour and black & white images throughout Hardback, clothbound with ribbon marker 72 pages