In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacit...(展开全部)

Best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s M is for Magic is his first collection for readers of all ages, in the tradition of such Ray Bradbury classics as R is for Rocket and S is for Space. In M is for Magic, readers will be enchanted by a neighborhood cat that fights a nightly battle to save his family from evil, a hardboiled nursery rhyme story, and many other delights as only Neil...(展开全部)

Best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s M is for Magic is his first collection for readers of all ages, in the tradition of such Ray Bradbury classics as R is for Rocket and S is for Space. In M is for Magic, readers will be enchanted by a neighborhood cat that fights a nightly battle to save his family from evil, a hardboiled nursery rhyme story, and many other delights as only Neil...(展开全部)

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)

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.

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)

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)