What to Read After Picture theory
Readers who loved Picture theory by W. J. Thomas Mitchell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Picture theory 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 Picture theory
Camera Lucida
Species of spaces and other pieces
Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
Confronting the challenges of participatory culture
Essays
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Visual methodologies
The art of describing
Visual grammar
Laocoon
Techniques of the observer
Representation
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
Image, music, text
S/Z
Poems
Mythologies
On Photography
Surfacing
The Sun Also Rises
The Turn of the Screw
The Crying of Lot 49
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Mrs. Dalloway