In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting ...(展开全部)

埃罗尔·莫里斯（Errol Morris，1948—） 美国著名导演、编剧、制作人，威斯康星大学历史学学士、普林斯顿大学科学史硕士、加州大学伯克利分校哲学博士。其执导的纪录片《细细的蓝线》获“美国国家影评人协会年度最佳纪录片奖”，《战争迷雾》获“第76届奥斯卡金像奖最佳纪录长片奖”，《标准流程》获“第58届柏林电影节评审团银熊奖”。 英国《卫报》在“史上四十佳导演”专题中将其排在第七位。《细细的蓝线》因成功推翻了一名死刑犯的判决，在全美引起巨大反响，也为纪录片史添上了浓墨重彩的一笔。 【译者简介】 周仰 摄影师、译者，英国伯明翰城市大学艺术学院博士生在读。2015—2022年，任上海外国语大学新闻传播学院（外聘）摄影课程教师。作品曾在多个国际摄影年展展出，并获集美·阿尔勒-Madame Figaro女性摄影师奖提名、徕卡奥斯卡·巴纳克摄影奖提名。 近...(展开全部)

This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory. In the introductory essay, "Modernity in Contemporary Society," Luhmann develops the thesis that the modern epistemological situation can be seen as the con...(展开全部)

This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory. In the introductory essay, "Modernity in Contemporary Society," Luhmann develops the thesis that the modern epistemological situation can be seen as the con...(展开全部)

"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art "not" made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there "aren't" any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius remove...(展开全部)

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled....(展开全部)

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled....(展开全部)

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with their seminal introduction to the field-Film Art, now in its ninth edition-or a cable television junkie unaware that the Independent Film Channel sagely christened them the 'Critic...(展开全部)

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with their seminal introduction to the field - Film Art, now in its ninth edition - or a cable television junkie unaware that the Independent Film Channel sagely christened them the 'Cr...(展开全部)