‘The Reference Stack’ is the growing pile of books every creative carries: stories, theories, and cultural texts that deepen how we see the world and make sense of our surrounding. Blending non-fiction and fiction across fashion, art history, design ...
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Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
Books that shape perspective on art history, fashion and culture
approachable and a good starting point
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
it's a sharp, academic dive into the minds that shaped how we read fashion
Thinking through Fashion: Guide to Theorists
she made me interrogate every image i saved. every screenshot, every reference folder, every moodboard. for anyone working in visuals—photographers, stylists, creative directors—it’s basically required heartbreak.
On Photography: by Susan Sontag
a filmmaker’s meditation on looking, drifting, and collecting moments before they disappear; wenders turns observation into a soft discipline, reminding creatives that seeing is a craft shaped by patience, wandering, and paying attention to what most...
