Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of ...(展开全部)

Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of ...(展开全部)

[美]威廉·凯莱赫·斯托里（William Kelleher Storey），曾任哈佛大学写作教师，现任美国米尔萨普斯学院历史学教授兼文理学院桑德森讲席教授，曾被美国教育促进与支持委员会和卡内基教学促进基金会联合授予“全州年度教授”荣誉。

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。

史蒂文·罗杰·费舍尔是新西兰人，在奥克兰波利尼西亚语言和文学研究所的主任。他的著作包括:《破解象形文字》、《语言史》、《阅读史》、《世界尽头的岛屿:复活节岛动荡史》(2005)和《岛屿:从亚特兰蒂斯到桑给巴尔岛》(2012)，最近中信出版社出版了他的《语言的历史》（2023.7）。 译者简介： 孙宝国，男 1968年生，上海师范大学影视传媒学院院长、教授、博士生导师，上海师范大学马克思主义研究院执行院长（兼），上海高校智库▪上海师范大学都市文化产业研究院院长（兼），国家公派利物浦大学访问学者。主持省部级以上项目12项，其中国家社科基金项目2项。出版专著11部、教材1部。

Here at last is a concise critical history of photography which explains by what criteria we can judge one photograph to be better than another, what is special about the photographic recording of images, what in fact is the essence of photography both in itself and in relation to other visual art forms. This brilliant study provides a unique guide to the critical issues throug...(展开全部)

This feminist retelling of the history of photography puts women in the picture—and, more importantly, behind the camera! In ten thematic, chronological sections, Tate Modern curator Emma Lewis explores the vital role women artists have played in shaping the ever-evolving medium of photography. Lewis has compiled work from more than 200 different women and nonbinary photograph...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Review One can only imagine the amazement felt by L.J.M. Daguerre, when, in the summer of 1839, he gazed upon the first photograph ever made. An image of the view from his Paris apartment of the bustling Boulevard du Temple, it was remarkably detailed yet mysteriously vacant, save for a single man in the distance who appeared to be having his boots polished; the rest...(展开全部)