Auto Focus features a dazzling array of self-portraits by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how issues of identity—whether national, sexual, racial, personal, or artistic—are key to understanding the work of many of today’s leadi...(展开全部)

Lavishly illustrated and accessible, this dazzling array of photographs by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers focusses on self-portraiture. From intimate images of introspection and those that challenge notions of ethnicity and sexuality, to dramatic, stylized photographs of dream-like scenarios, Auto Focus shows how one of the longest-established a...(展开全部)

Lavishly illustrated and accessible, this dazzling array of photographs by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers focusses on self-portraiture. From intimate images of introspection and those that challenge notions of ethnicity and sexuality, to dramatic, stylized photographs of dream-like scenarios, Auto Focus shows how one of the longest-established a...(展开全部)

这本《中国当代摄影艺术(精)》由顾铮编著，收入本书的摄影作品，首先考量的是有助于了解中国的社会生活与时代变迁。同时，这些作品也提供了解摄影这个视觉媒介在中国的近况的途径。因此，一些著名的作品也许并不是本书所要收录的对象，而能够反映当下的中国当代摄影现况的作品可能受到更优先的考虑。

The realities of the social life in China's business practices reveal an increasing divergence from the ideologies of the Chinese state. In this engaging work, Xin Liu examines the Asian economic crisis and, particularly, the rise of China as a major trading power in the region. Liu illuminates a history of conjuncture, including the effects of the Maoist revolution and the inf...(展开全部)

The realities of the social life in China's business practices reveal an increasing divergence from the ideologies of the Chinese state. In this engaging work, Xin Liu examines the Asian economic crisis and, particularly, the rise of China as a major trading power in the region. Liu illuminates a history of conjuncture, including the effects of the Maoist revolution and the inf...(展开全部)

约翰·阿什贝利 （John Ashbery，1927—2017） 美国当代最有影响力的诗人之一。出版超过25部诗集，早期作品《一些树》获选W.H.奥登编选的“耶鲁青年诗人丛书”；诗集《凸面镜中的自画像》获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、美国全国书评人协会奖三项大奖；《空中札记：后期诗选》获格里芬国际诗歌奖。 美国艺术与文学学院院士，也是美国艺术与科学院院士。曾两次获得古根海姆奖，1982年获颁美国诗人学会的年度诗人奖。1985年获得麦克阿瑟奖。 少况 诗人，译者，出版诗集《次要的雪》《Cy Twombly的邮戳》，出版译作《在西瓜糖里》。

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。