If you liked
Books like On Photography
Loved On Photography by Susan Sontag? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from art & photography, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Ways of Seeing
How we look at images, and who benefits; a short, radical book that changed art criticism.
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Understanding Comics
How comics work as a medium, told in comics form; ingenious and widely admired.
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The Story of Art
The most readable single-volume history of Western art; a classic introduction for everyone.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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Conformity and conflict
""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
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Our bodies, ourselves
Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene.
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Louise Bourgeois
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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Plein Ciel
Wings is the story of a young woman who fights all the odds to fulfil her dreams. From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes shimmering in the moo
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De Proust a Camus
This book is the ideal introduction to modern French literature.