What to Read After Techniques of the Observer
Readers who loved Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Techniques of the Observer 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 Techniques of the Observer
Downcast Eyes
The Dialectics of Seeing
Performance Theory (Routledgeclassics)
On Longing
Objectivity
The Necessity of Art
Towards a Philosophy of Photography
The success and failure of Picasso
Relational Aesthetics
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art
The Return of the Real
Five Faces of Modernity
The Painting of Modern Life
Chromophobia (FOCI)
Picture Theory
Non-places
Homo Sacer
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Simulacra and Simulation
The Order of Things
Illuminations
On Photography
The Poetics of Space
Camera Lucida