From the first misty 'heliograph' taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz, to the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Victor Burgin, the history of photography is a record of dazzling and penetrating images. But photographs are also the most pervasive images of our time, in...(展开全部)

In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book provides an introduction to the extraordinary range of contemporary art photography, from portraits of intimate life to ...(展开全部)

The first accessible guide to the key artists and uses of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. An ideal introduction to this popular subject in contemporary culture, this highly readable book surveys work by more than 150 artist-photographers: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare...(展开全部)

本书作者夏洛特·科顿是策展人、作家。她曾担任美国洛杉矶州立博物馆瓦里斯·安嫩伯格摄影部主管，英国伦敦摄影家艺术馆的项目负责人，英国国立媒体博物馆创意总监，伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆摄影策展人。她策划了许多当代摄影展，出版了《缺憾之美》《万物归于平静》《盖伊·伯尔丁》等书。她也是wordswithoutpictures.org和EitherAnd.org这两个网站的创始人。

The first accessible guide to the key artists and uses of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. An ideal introduction to this popular subject in contemporary culture, this highly readable book surveys work by more than 150 artist-photographers: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare...(展开全部)

本书作者夏洛特·科顿是策展人、作家。她曾担任美国洛杉矶州立博物馆瓦里斯·安嫩伯格摄影部主管，英国伦敦摄影家艺术馆的项目负责人，英国国立媒体博物馆创意总监，伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆摄影策展人。她策划了许多当代摄影展，出版了《缺憾之美》《万物归于平静》《盖伊·伯尔丁》等书。她也是wordswithoutpictures.org和EitherAnd.org这两个网站的创始人。

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement,...(展开全部)

Adams, a noted photographer of the American West, dislikes words that describe pictures. In this collection of poetic, thought-provoking and highly original essays, he examines Paul Strand's devotion to America and analyzes the origins of his art; he looks at the contradictions in Ansel Adams' life and work, and comes to his own conclusions. He writes movingly not only of peopl...(展开全部)

作者：约翰·伯格（John Berger） ，英国艺术评论家、小说家、画家和诗人，1926年出生于英国伦敦。1944至1946年在英国军队服役。退役后入切尔西艺术学院和伦敦中央艺术学院学习。1940年代后期，伯格以画家身份开始其创作生涯，于伦敦多个画廊举办展览。1948年 至1955年，他以教授绘画为业，并为伦敦著名杂志《新政治家》撰稿，迅速成为英国最有影响力的艺术批评家之一。 1972年，他的电视系列片《观看之道》在BBC播出，同时出版配套的图文书，遂成艺术批评的经典之作。小说《G》为他赢得了布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。2008年，伯格凭借小说《A致X：给狱中情人的温柔书简》再次获得布克奖提名。2017年1月2日，约翰·伯格在法国安东尼去世。 译者：任悦，策展人，摄影评论人，摄影教育工作者，现任职于中国人民大学新闻与传播学院。出版有《141...(展开全部)

（修訂版增修40頁，包含〈序言〉及第8章〈物質與材質〉） 244幅代表性影像、227位最重要的當代攝影家 一次大戰後，匈牙利藝術家納吉（Laszlo Moholy-Nagy）曾預言：「不了解攝影的人，未來將成為文盲。」但他那時卻無法預見，幾十年後數位相機將如何席捲全球，更無法預見，80年代之後的攝影創作，將掀起何等翻天覆地的變化。 影像的語言不斷推新，攝影的疆界不斷拓寬，攝影家集體推動的當代攝影像一具越滾越大的巨輪，悍然挖掘我們的集體意識、個人心靈。冷冰冰的肖像、亦真亦假的場景、直率到難以直視的裸照、如同業餘攝影的拙劣照片、吃剩的食物、吵架的家人……這些影像都堂堂出現在攝影集、美術館中，引起熱烈討論。我們或懾服於攝影家無懈可擊的美學手法，但也常對著某些影像大惑不解，懷疑這些照片的價值。當攝影變得越來越難定義時，我們如何看待這些似乎沒有規則可循的當代攝...(展开全部)