Amazon.com Review One can only imagine the amazement felt by L.J.M. Daguerre, when, in the summer of 1839, he gazed upon the first photograph ever made. An image of the view from his Paris apartment of the bustling Boulevard du Temple, it was remarkably detailed yet mysteriously vacant, save for a single man in the distance who appeared to be having his boots polished; the rest...(展开全部)

作者：(英)马克·德登（Mark Durden），英国作家，艺术家，南威尔士大学创意产业学院摄影系教授。著有《多萝西娅·兰格》（Dorothea Lange，2001，2012），《摄影研究的五十位重要学者》（Fifty Key Writers on Photography ,2012）。合著包括与大卫·坎贝尔(David Campbell)合作的《可变资本》（Variable Capital，2007），与肯·格兰特(Ken Grant)合作的《二次拍摄：基斯·梅得利文献中的肖像照》（Double Take: Portraits From the Keith Medley Archive，2013）等。此外，马克·德登还发表了大量关于摄影与当代艺术的文章。目前，他是艺术家小组“共同文化”(Common Culture)的成员。

Here at last is a concise critical history of photography which explains by what criteria we can judge one photograph to be better than another, what is special about the photographic recording of images, what in fact is the essence of photography both in itself and in relation to other visual art forms. This brilliant study provides a unique guide to the critical issues throug...(展开全部)

This feminist retelling of the history of photography puts women in the picture—and, more importantly, behind the camera! In ten thematic, chronological sections, Tate Modern curator Emma Lewis explores the vital role women artists have played in shaping the ever-evolving medium of photography. Lewis has compiled work from more than 200 different women and nonbinary photograph...(展开全部)

After more than twenty-five years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Now in its eighth edition, this acclaimed text features updated scholarship and bibliographic material throughout and integrates new research on such incisive topics as the Indian diaspora, the economy, and the nuclear issue. In...(展开全部)

If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new - new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible? In Novelty, Michael North takes us on a dazzling tou...(展开全部)

Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathetic view. Surveying the successive waves of nostalgia that swept the United States and ...(展开全部)