10 must-read photography books like Boring Postcards by Martin Parr

Cover of Boring Postcards by Martin Parr

Boring Postcards

By: Martin Parr

4.15

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

As the title of this book suggests, each of the postcards that fill its pages is, in a sense, quite…

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Cover of Die Physiker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1. Die Physiker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Mobius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefahrliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft … read more

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Cover of Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, William Weaver

2. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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Cover of Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm

3. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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Cover of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver

4. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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5. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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Cover of The Street of Crocodiles by Jonathan Safran Foer, Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski, Celina Wieniewska

6. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

Cover of Room to Dream by David Lynch

7. Room to Dream

By: David Lynch

4.33

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

Cover of The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

8. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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Cover of The Solitude of Ravens by Masahisa Fukase

9. The Solitude of Ravens

By: Masahisa Fukase

4.67

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Exceptionally rare first U.S. PB edition, published 1991 by Bedford Arts. If you're reading this, y… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of In Flagrante Two by Chris Killip

10. In Flagrante Two

By: Chris Killip

4.26

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

The photographs that Chris Killip (born 1946) took in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were f… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of Unnamed Road by Jungjin Lee

11. Unnamed Road

By: Jungjin Lee

3.23

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

For Jungjin Lee, photographing the landscape is an exploration of her own mind – the introspective … read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of The World is Ever Changing by Nicolas Roeg

12. The World is Ever Changing

By: Nicolas Roeg

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Nicolas Roeg is one of the most distinctive and influential film-makers of his generation. The gene… read more

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  • nonfiction

13. INto the Silence

By: Yasuhiro Ogawa

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yasuhiro Ogawa's latest photobook, "Into the Silence," published by Blue Lotus Editions Hong Kong, … read more

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  • photography

14. The Dreaming

By: Yasuhiro Ogawa

3.50

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A culmination of the twenty seven year career of Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ogawa. The book con… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

15. Veronika Decides to Die

By: Paulo Coelho

3.73

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundam… read more

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"Am I cured?"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Collective madness is called sanity .."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

Cover of Café Belgica by Harry Gruyaert

16. Café Belgica

By: Harry Gruyaert

3.88

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

"We Belgians are used to seeing people have fun, get drunk, dance or do whatever else they please i… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Boring Postcards by Martin Parr

17. Boring Postcards

By: Martin Parr

4.15

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

As the title of this book suggests, each of the postcards that fill its pages is, in a sense, quite… read more

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  • architecture
  • art
  • history
  • travel
  • humor
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of Edges by Harry Gruyaert

18. Edges

By: Harry Gruyaert

4.27

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

From Belgium to Morocco, by way of India and Egypt, for more than thirty-five years Harry Gruyaert … read more

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  • photography
Cover of Summer Nights, Walking: Signed and Numbered Edition by Robert  Adams

19. Summer Nights, Walking: Signed and Numbered Edition

By: Robert Adams

4.41

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisitely produced signed and numbered volume, the influential American photographer Robe… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of Voice by Jungjin Lee

20. Voice

By: Jungjin Lee

4.67

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Jungjin Lee’s extraordinary new artist’s book, Voice, comprises 46 large-scale photographs made in … read more

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Cover of PUGLIA. TRA ALBE E TRAMONTI by Luigi Ghirri

21. PUGLIA. TRA ALBE E TRAMONTI

By: Luigi Ghirri

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Puglia. Tra albe e tramonti offers a brilliant account of Luigi Ghirri’s relationship with Puglia —… read more

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  • art
  • photography

7 Top art books like Boring Postcards by Martin Parr

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David Lynch

4.33

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Masahisa Fukase

4.67

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4.26

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Jungjin Lee

3.23

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1.00

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Masahisa Fukase

4.67

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4.26

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3.23

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