What to Read After About Looking
Readers who loved About Looking by John Berger keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where About Looking is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after About Looking
Camera Lucida
On Photography
The Accidental Masterpiece
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The nature of photographs
Regarding the Pain of Others
William Eggleston's guide
Illuminations
Cindy Sherman
Art as Experience
Powers of horror
The photographer's eye
Diane Arbus
The culture industry
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
G.
Immediate family
The Camera
To the wedding
Art and illusion
Interaction of Colour
The object stares back
Penny Red
The medium is the massage