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)

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)

Why is the cinema 100 years old, and not 120 or 150 years old? Why do Kodak film stocks have such trouble capturing non-Caucasian skin tones? Why did professionals wait thirty years and more before widely adopting 16mm film? Technologies of Seeing is a breakthrough in analysis of the idealogical and aesthetic forces central to the historical development of film and television...(展开全部)

Why is the cinema 100 years old, and not 120 or 150 years old? Why do Kodak film stocks have such trouble capturing non-Caucasian skin tones? Why did professionals wait thirty years and more before widely adopting 16mm film? Technologies of Seeing is a breakthrough in analysis of the idealogical and aesthetic forces central to the historical development of film and television...(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)

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with...(展开全部)

苏珊·桑塔格，1933年生于美国纽约，毕业于芝加哥大学。1993年当选为美国文学艺术学院院士。她是美国声名卓著的“新知识分子”，和西蒙娜·波伏瓦、汉娜·阿伦特并称为西方当代最重要的女知识分子，被誉为“美国公众的良心”。2000年获美国国家图书奖，2001年获耶路撒冷国际文学奖，2003年获德国书业和平奖。2004年12月28日病逝于纽约。

How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shoc...(展开全部)