For the majority of his decades-long career, Norman Rockwell relied on a camera to help him render the iconic scenarios born in his imagination. Photograph by photograph, he painstakingly assembled the specific features he sought for his envisioned illustration, projecting whole or partial pictures of amateur models, objects and settings onto drafting paper, and from there, ont...(展开全部)

菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

Ansel Adams produced some of the century's truly memorable photographic images and helped nurture the art of photography through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery. This handbook - the first volume in Adam's celebrated series of books on photographic techniques - has taught a generation of photographers how to harness the camera's artistic potential. It rem...(展开全部)

Drawing on interviews with the master photographer himself, this is a fascinating volume repatriates some of Karsh's most iconic portraits with the stories behind them. In August and September of 1988, Yousuf Karsh's long-time assistant, Jerry Fielder, sat down with the master photographer and taped over nine hours of recollections of the many portrait sessions he'd experienced...(展开全部)

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she fin...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description McDonald's: it is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing. In tough financial times, McDonald's proved that ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instinct were the keys to building a service business the entire world has come to admire. In the years since McDonald's: Behind The Arch...(展开全部)

Steve McCurry's iconic images have made him one of the world's most popular photographers for more than 30 years. Now Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs will, for the first time, tell the stories behind over 200 stunning images taken by McCurry from across the globe, including Afghanistan, India, Tibet, Kuwait, the USA, and beyond. In the finest document...(展开全部)

李敦白（Sidney Rittenberg，1921年8月14日-2019年8月24日），犹太裔美国学者，生于美国南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的一个犹太家庭。美国进步人士。一九四五年来中国。一九四六年七月和十月，先后在张家口、延安新华广播电台从事英语广播稿的编辑和播音工作。