The Unseen Eye presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals. Amassed ov...(展开全部)

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)

The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. The account of modernism presented here challenges the vaunted principle of "vision itself." And it is a very different story than we have ever read, not o...(展开全部)

Within the ephemera of the everyday - old photographs, circus posters, iron toys - lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Bill Brown recovers in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s. As revealed in Crane's appropriation of...(展开全部)

The Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo and National Geographic photographer presents the first collection of his iconic adventure photography, featuring some of the greatest moments of the most accomplished climbers and outdoor athletes in the world, and including more than 200 extraordinary photographs. Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin g...(展开全部)

A monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind.

Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union is the culmination of Jonas Bendiksen’s fascinating seven-year photographic journey through unrecognized countries, enclaves, and isolated communi­ties. For decades, these outlying republics were held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet Empire. When the USSR dissolved, in 1991, ...(展开全部)

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A...(展开全部)

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn...(展开全部)