Creativity
Art & Fear
David Bayles & Ted Orland · 1993
Observations on the perils and rewards of artmaking.
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Visual culture — seeing, making and understanding images and design.
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Photography
Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton · 2013
Street portraits and stories from the five boroughs.
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Color Theory
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers · 1963
Albers' masterwork on how colors deceive and relate.
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Photography Criticism
On Photography
Susan Sontag · 1977
Sontag's landmark essays on the meaning and ethics of photographs.
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Creativity
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon · 2012
Ten things nobody told you about being creative.
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Typography
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst · 1992
The definitive guide to the craft of typography and the design of the printed page.
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Photography Technique
The Photographer's Eye
Michael Freeman · 2007
Composition and design for better digital photographs.
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Art History
The Story of Art
E. H. Gombrich · 1950
The world's bestselling introduction to art history.
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Visual Theory
Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud · 1993
The invisible art, explained in comics form.
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Art Criticism
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 1972
Berger's influential essays on how we see images, from the BBC series.
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