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Books like Ways of Seeing

Loved Ways of Seeing by John Berger? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from art & photography, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    On Photography

    Susan Sontag · 1977 · Art & Photography

    What taking and viewing photographs does to us; a brilliant, much-quoted set of essays.

  2. 2

    Understanding Comics

    Scott McCloud · 1993 · Art & Photography

    How comics work as a medium, told in comics form; ingenious and widely admired.

  3. 3

    The Story of Art

    Ernst Gombrich · 1950 · Art & Photography

    The most readable single-volume history of Western art; a classic introduction for everyone.

  4. 4

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion · 1968 · Essays

    Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.

  5. 5

    The Fire Next Time

    James Baldwin · 1963 · Essays

    Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.

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    Conformity and conflict

    James P. Spradley · 1971 · Essays

    ""Seeks to teach students the importance of culture and its influence on human life. By including examples of Western, North American cultures, the text makes cultural understanding and comparison mor

  7. 7

    Our bodies, ourselves

    Boston Women's Health Book Collective · 1971 · Essays

    Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene.

  8. 8

    De Proust a Camus

    André Maurois · 1963 · Essays

    This book is the ideal introduction to modern French literature.

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    Louise Bourgeois

    Louise Bourgeois · 1981 · Essays

    Though known primarily for her sculpture, Louise Bourgeois has displayed a lifelong passion for drawing and considers it to be essential to her oeuvre. This exceptional book is the first to combine ov

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    Historias de cronopios y de famas

    Julio Cortázar · 1962 · Essays

    "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions a

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