When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but "memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of fi...(展开全部)

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to criti...(展开全部)

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to criti...(展开全部)

Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and politica...(展开全部)

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle...(展开全部)

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle...(展开全部)

In 1910, when Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962) wrote and published The Legends of Tono in Japanese, he had no idea that 100 years later, his book would become a Japanese literary and folklore classic. Yanagita is best remembered as the founder of Japanese folklore studies, and Ronald Morse transcends time to bring the reader a marvelous guide to Tono, Yanagita, and his enthralling ta...(展开全部)

吉姆•哈里森（1937—2016），美国诗人、小说家和影视剧本作家，素有“中篇小说大师”之称。哈里森受家庭熏陶，酷爱阅读，最初以诗歌创作开始其文学生涯，视创作为生命的召唤，一生笔耕不辍，是一名多才多艺的多产作家。他的中篇小说多以三部曲形式结集出版，包括《秋日传奇》、《被萤火虫照亮的妇女》、《朱莉普》、《上帝忘记创造的野兽》、《他未死的那年夏天》、《农民的女儿》和《远古游吟诗人》。其主要作品都以他熟悉的北部半岛、蒙大拿州或亚利桑那州的乡村为背景，与福克纳有许多相似之处。 他酷爱垂钓、打猎等户外活动，喜爱饮酒和美食，作品中又常现“硬汉”形象，因此被誉为“当代海明威”。他的作品已经被译为二十多种语言，深受读者喜爱，尤其是法国等欧洲国家的读者更是对他的作品情有独钟，认为它们更真实地反映了美国社会生活和文明冲突。

The acclaimed author of A Good Day to Die and Warlock has written a screenplay to be directed by Edward Zwick, starring Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, and Aidan Quinn, and scheduled for release October 7th from Tristar pictures.