I recommend the book over the series. It was written after the original series aired, and gives more space to some interesting topics. For instance I don't recall the series discussing museum goers beliefs about museums.

yep, and Sony Music Entertainment auto-ensured shareholder value was maximized

I came to Berger through Sontag’s On Photography. An easier companion.

His work is most definitely not taught as dogma. I assure you, there are plenty of courses that will be happy to explain to you about the old masters.

I’m confused, so now that he is considered influential in the fields he lacked credentials for how is that in any way a negative

Unless you think those fields were scientifically rigorous until they decided to adopt his ideas?

Maybe you just disagree with the existence of “male gaze”

Can you expand on that and point me at resources in this topic? Interesting.

Berger’s way of ‘seeing’ is to situate yourself in the time and place, less ocular than you may assume. And then he wrote the touching Cataracts, about how he lost his vision and gained a new way to see. He regained his vision and soon died. Possibly this is why you’ve been downvoted.