Adding photographs to fiction and poetry became a trend in 1990 with the explosive popularity of WG Sebald’s Vertigo , but it was far from a new innovation. There were illustrated novels 98 years earlier, starting with Georges Rodenbach’s symbolist novel Bruges-la-Morte in 1892. The writer and curator Terry Pitts keeps a list of poetry and fiction with photographs, called Vertigo, which has almost 900 titles. Today, many contemporary writers experiment with images, from Jonathan Safran Foer to Minae Mizumura, Hannah Weiner, Monica Ong, Lydia Davis, Debra Di Blasi, Susan Howe, Jesse Ball, and Ali Smith. Yet there is no book on the subject, no history, no guide. It often happens that authors who add photos to their books are inspired by just one or two precedents, so the 900 and counting exemplars represent an amazing diversity of practices.…