12 Top art books like Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now by Carmen Winant

Cover of Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now by Carmen Winant

Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

By: Carmen Winant

4.09

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A timely and explosive book by acclaimed artist and writer Carmen Winant, Instructional Photography…

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Cover of King Kong théorie by Virginie Despentes

1. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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  • feminism
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

Cover of The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Maxine Hong Kingston

2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

3. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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4. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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5. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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6. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • art
  • photography
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

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7. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • art

8. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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9. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

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  • feminism
  • art
Cover of The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy

10. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

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  • feminism
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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11. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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12. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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  • feminism
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

Cover of Panza de burro by Andrea Abreu López

13. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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14. Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

3.89

Format: 236 pages, ebook

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more

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  • feminism
"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

15. Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more

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  • art
Cover of Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase by Anna Pacheco

16. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase

By: Anna Pacheco

4.14

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more

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17. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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Cover of Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

18. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

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  • feminism
  • art
Cover of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie

19. The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By: Jennifer Higgie

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the w… read more

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  • feminism
  • art
Cover of La furia de las imágenes: Notas sobre la postfotografía by Joan Fontcuberta

20. La furia de las imágenes: Notas sobre la postfotografía

By: Joan Fontcuberta

4.12

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

La segunda revolución digital -caracterizada por la preeminencia de Internet, las redes sociales y … read more

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  • art
  • photography
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21. Welcome Home

By: Lucia Berlin

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction compan… read more

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"Lo llaman romperse el corazón porque añorar a alguien es un dolor físico real, lo sientes en la sangre y en los huesos."

-Lucia Berlin, Welcome Home

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22. Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville

By: Estelle Hoy

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Estelle Hoy offers a wry exploration of the seductive allure of tropes and cliché in the art world … read more

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  • art
Cover of Image Text Music by Catherine Taylor

23. Image Text Music

By: Catherine Taylor

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Image Text Music by writer and editor Catherine Taylor is a series of textual and photographic essa… read more

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24. What Artists Wear

By: Charlie Porter

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more

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  • art
Cover of El uso de la foto by Annie Ernaux

25. El uso de la foto

By: Annie Ernaux

3.82

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

«A menudo, desde el principio de nuestra relación, me había quedado fascinada descubriendo al despe… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz

26. Peter Hujar's Day

By: Linda Rosenkrantz

4.27

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

On December 18, 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he di… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now by Carmen Winant

27. Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

By: Carmen Winant

4.09

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A timely and explosive book by acclaimed artist and writer Carmen Winant, Instructional Photography… read more

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  • feminism
  • photography
  • art

28. Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown

By: Kim Beil

4.00

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Anonymous Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown suggests that unidentifiable things in photograp… read more

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29. Under the Wings of the Valkyrie

By: Sjón

3.65

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

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Cover of To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (Spbh Essays, 1) by Duncan Wooldridge

30. To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (Spbh Essays, 1)

By: Duncan Wooldridge

4.22

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

How photography transforms the future as much as the past This book proposes a radical that the ph… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography by Nicholas Muellner

31. Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography

By: Nicholas Muellner

3.83

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Lacuna Park collects writer-photographer Nicholas Muellner’s textual and visual essays created betw… read more

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  • photography

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Transform Your Habits

King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Deborah Levy

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Still Born

Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

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Transform Your Habits

The Death of Bunny Munro

Nick Cave

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Sick Bag Song

Nick Cave

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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