Recs if you like On Photography...
🪴 Creative fuel for the tired people 📗
Our mental space can hold way more space than we think. So can our hands. This is for that tired, anxious and cool adult, go feed your soul and your creativity.
In the Eye of the Beholder
Nonfiction books and essays about visual art and how it functions as a mirror to ourselves. They discuss art's meaning, its interpretations, how art changes through our eyes, the effects of systematic discrimination upon how art is made and consumed, and help to develop better, more critical, and more introspective ways of looking at art and our museums.
Recommendations welcome!
Female Philosophers
Dedicated to the professor that told us he wouldn't teach us any historical women philosophers because "there aren't any". Modern female philosophers included in list.
Books for History Majors
Look At This Photograph 🖼
Every time I do, it makes me laugh.
Nickelback aside, being a photographer used to be one of my dream jobs. But photography schools were costly (and by then I already had to give up to arts uni), so I moved onto books and the good ol' trial and failure to learn. Didn't become one, but I still love photography 📸
Note: making this list sent me in a rabbit hole of finding books on history of photography and not only the "how to take photos" ones, so I haven't read some of these! Plus, some are also on archive.org!
The Dior Book Tote Club
Every book featured in the Dior Book Tote Club on YouTube ☕ w/ Pretty Yende, Beatrice Borromeo, Rosamund Pike, Natalie Portman, Nine d'Urso
it is that deep
books where either the walls being blue does symbolize sadness, or where the author just digs into a subject
U.S. studies on Visual Sociology
For the girlies that want an academic background on photography through the lens of sociology
On Reading 2026
January: memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, The Copenhagen Trilogy
February: classic literature Anna Karenina, Of Mice and Men, The Old Man and the Sea, The Master and Margarita
March: art criticism Ways of Seeing, On Photography
April: nature writing Braiding Sweetgrass, Upstream
May: journal/diary/letters A Diary of a Young Girl
June: book with an adaptation Lord of the Flies, Persuasion, Catch-22
July: cultural criticism The Fire Next Time, Regarding the Pain of Others
August: women in translation The Summer Book, The Door
September: an essay collection Bad Feminist
October: a play Midsummer Night's Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest
November: gothic literature Carmilla
December: short stories Nine Stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Tenth of December, Ficciones, Interpret of Maladies
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