It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulation, the practice of "doctoring" photographs has in fact existed since the m...(展开全部)

From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philo...(展开全部)

Let's be honest--"at least briefly. Sometimes you just need a day.

吉姆·斯通(Jim Stone)，美国新圣西哥大学摄影专业教授，美国马萨诸塞艺术委员会及美国国家艺术基金会大奖获得者。作品曾被纽约现代艺术博物馆、美国国家艺术馆、汉堡工艺美术馆等多家艺术机构收藏。著有A User’s Guide tothe VieW Camera，DarkPoom Dynamlcs A Short Course in Photography，Photography及三本个人摄影集 Stranger ThanFiction，Historiostomy，Why My Pictures are Good.

An inclusive introduction to photography that elucidates the multiple, dynamic roles and character of this art form, both historically and today. Photography has a complex relationship to art. This volume uses an innovative framework to help readers appreciate photography as its own modern art form. In his unique and insightful approach, professor of photography David Bate pres...(展开全部)

拉兹洛·莫霍利-纳吉（1895—1946)，是20世纪杰出的前卫艺术家之一。曾任教于早期的包豪斯，奠定三大构成基础，强调理性、功能，他在学术上对表现、构成、未来、达达和抽象派兼收并蓄，以各种手段进行拍摄试验。最为突出的研究是以光、空间和运动为对象。他曾以透明塑料和反光金属为实验材料，创作“光调节器”雕塑。

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)

Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images pro...(展开全部)

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)

"After Photography" examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on mobile phones to the widespread use of image surveillance. In a world beset by critical problems and ambiguous boundaries, Fred Ritchin argues that it is time to explore the possibili...(展开全部)