A useful companion book for art-interested laypeople strolling through art galleries, exhibitions, and museums. What do the Sunday suits of the farmers from the Westerwald tell us in August Sander's famous photograph? What do the farmers in Millet's paintings signify, and what does their absence in de la Tour's works imply? Is Francis Bacon a schematic terrorist? How does an image change under the gaze of the viewer? Why do we look at animals, and how do they see us? And what is Alberto Giacometti contemplating as he walks across the street in the rain? Berger's unorthodox approach to his encounters with images invites the reader to develop their own, new forms of perception—a kind of second, "reading" gaze.