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In 1968, on the run from the Californian police after the first of a series of crimes, the serial killer and amateur photographer Rodney Alcala moved to NYC. Here, while attending film courses at New York University he assumed the alias John Berger, the same name as the British writer and art historian famed for the BBC TV series “Ways of Seeing”.

Is this only a mere coincidence? Did Alcala know about John Berger? Starting from these questions, The Looking Game sets up a series of connections between Berger’s words and some of the images taken from Alcala’s archive of pictures made available online by the Huntington Beach Police in 2010.

Publisher
Release Place London, United Kingdom
Release Date 2013
Credits
Artist: Mirko Smerdel
Work  
Topics John Berger, Rodney Alcala, Serial Killer
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Paperback
Dimensions 13.0 × 18.0 cm
Pages 111