A documentation of Andy Warhol's 1982 visit to China, this volume offers a unique glimpse of the international pop star by Christopher Makos, his personal photographer. With the advantage of hindsight, this volume becomes complexly ironic-in China in the 80s, almost no one knew who Warhol was. Just a few decades later, in 2006, Warhol's 1972 'Mao' sold for $17.4 million to a Ho...(展开全部)

Painter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, all-round celebrity, Andy Warhol is an outstanding cultural icon. He revolutionised art by bringing to it images from popular culture - such as the Campbell's soup can and Marilyn Monroe's face - while his studio, the Factory, where his free-spirited cast of 'superstars' mingled with the rich and famous, became the place of origin...(展开全部)

Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art In the mid-1960s, at the height of his creative powers, Andy Warhol produced hundreds of three-minute cinematic portraits, called "Screen Tests." Although rarely screened now, these short films captured a virtual who's who of the avant-garde, including such cultural icons as Edie Sedgwick, Bob Dylan, Salvador Da...(展开全部)

First Book to Feature over 300 of Warhol's Famous Faces"I think everybody is my friend." -Andy Warhol To the general public, Andy Warhol is known as a painter of legendaryicons, from Marilyn and Jackie O to his own ever-changing self-portrait. Less known are the portraits he made of socialites, art dealers,collectors, politicians, fashion designers and a variety of contemporary...(展开全部)

The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations revealing this unique and important artist. Each piece presents a different fa...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 An Essential Primer on Understanding Photography by One of theWorld's Most Influential Photographers "In my roughly twenty years of writing about photography, I don't thinkI've come across a book that has implied so much with so few words, a bookthat raises so many important questions with so little fanfare and withsuch precision."-James Kaufmann, Photographer's Forum...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/China-in-the-Eyes-of-the-Japanese/Xiuli-Wei-Yunxiang/p/book/9780367685843 The relation between China and Japan is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world but how did the Japanese view China in ancient times? How did views change throughout the course of history? How could China’s image be improved in Japanese people’s eyes? This ...(展开全部)

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China...(展开全部)

约翰·汤姆逊（John Thomson 1837-1921）苏格兰摄影家、地理学家、旅行家，纪实摄影领域的先驱，是最早来远东旅行、并用照片记录各地人文风俗和自然景观的摄影师之一。汤姆逊出生于一个烟草商人家庭，1850年代初进入一家生产光学仪器的工厂做学徒，同时通过两年 夜校，他学习了一些自然哲学以及初级的数学和化学知识，并掌握了摄影技术。1862年，他成为皇家苏格兰艺术学会的会员。同年追随哥哥威廉到了新加坡，生产经营航海仪器，并开设了一家照相馆，主拍人像。后又去过锡兰（今斯里兰卡）、印度、暹罗（今泰国）、柬埔寨、越南。1866年，他探访了刚被发现不久的吴哥窟，成为第一个为吴哥窟拍照的摄影师。回国后，他多次在演讲中使用在暹罗、柬埔寨拍摄的照片，引起极大反响，因此于1866年入选皇家人种学会和皇家地理学会。1867年10月移居香港，开始了他摄影生涯中至关...(展开全部)