I’m slowly adding to Vertigo sections of my bibliography of works of fiction and poetry that have embedded photographs as an integral part of the “text.” I maintain a complete listing of the titles I know about at my LibraryThing catalog. My catalog is called VertigoTwo.  Leave me a comment if you know of additional books.
On an annual basis I post lists of newly published titles along with some brief commentary. I am also slowly working my way backward through earlier years.
A list of books published in 2005.
A list of books published in 2006.
A list of books published in 2007.
A list of books published in 2008.
A list of books published in 2009.
A list of books published in 2010.
A list of books published in 2011.
A list of books published in 2012.
To see every post in which I discuss the topic of photography-embedded fiction, simply click here.
March 26, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Tim Pears’ new book Landed (pub 2010) has some very Sebaldish photographs describing a fictional road accident.
June 19, 2011 at 11:04 am
Fascinating resource!
Probably a dumb question, but are all the photographs in these works ‘visual’, or can they be fictional, verbal ones functioning (for e.g.) as plot clinchers, evidence, etc?
June 19, 2011 at 7:05 pm
The photographs I am referring to in all of these books are strictly visual images embedded within the text. There is a very large world of verbally described photographs, but my interest lies in the literary phenomenon of real photographs as a kind of text.
August 30, 2011 at 10:59 am
The Box Man by Kobo Abe has some eerie photographs in it.
August 31, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Great! I knew Abe is a photographer and I’ve read many of his books. But I’ve never looked at The Box Man. Will do so promptly!
Terry
December 29, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Can vouch for Abe’s Box Man, definitely strange photos, as a Sebald fan I guess you know about Unrecounted , which has lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp.
March 14, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Terry, I really enjoy your site. Have been catching up on the past posts. Not sure if you have posted this title yet. Jack Finney’s Time and Again? Thanks
March 14, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Alan, Thanks! The Finney book is new to me. I really appreciate the tip.
Terry
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August 21, 2012 at 12:35 pm
You should be looking into this title :
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (2011)
August 21, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Thanks for the comment about Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. I’ve got a copy but haven’t updated the 2011 list recently. I’ll have to do that soon.
Terry
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September 16, 2012 at 11:27 am
Have you cited Pamuk’s Istanbul? a book I find almost sickeningly indebted to Sebald.
September 16, 2012 at 6:54 pm
I haven’t read Istanbul (I had trouble finishing several other books by Pamuk). So I haven’t too closely at it yet. Is it fictional enough to be “fiction”? I’d love some advice on this.
Terry
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March 10, 2013 at 5:35 am
A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson (pub. Sort Of Books) contains some photos.
March 10, 2013 at 10:47 am
Rise, Thanks for the tip! I must get this. -Terry
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