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。

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)

这本《中国当代摄影艺术(精)》由顾铮编著，收入本书的摄影作品，首先考量的是有助于了解中国的社会生活与时代变迁。同时，这些作品也提供了解摄影这个视觉媒介在中国的近况的途径。因此，一些著名的作品也许并不是本书所要收录的对象，而能够反映当下的中国当代摄影现况的作品可能受到更优先的考虑。

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)

With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen Media philosopher Vilem Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation o...(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)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)