《照片的本质》中，斯蒂芬•肖尔从已成为经典的影像到无名氏的图像，从底片到数码文档，探讨了如何理解和观看各种类型的照片。除了肖尔本人作品之外，《照片的本质》汇集了摄影史上许多著名影像，从摄影之父阿尔弗雷德•斯蒂格利茨和沃克•埃文斯的作品，到当代利用摄影媒介创作的艺术家科利尔•施尔和托马斯•斯特鲁斯的作品。它也涵盖一系列不同的摄影类型，如街头摄影、艺术摄影和纪实摄影，以及无名氏摄影，包括旧的快照和地质调查航拍的照片。肖尔利用这些照片，加上他明晰、睿智和易懂的文字，阐明相机前的世界如何转变成照片。

◎“中国摄影教父”阮义忠代表作，精装典藏纪念版
◎问世31年历久弥新，中国当代摄影师的启蒙经典
◎20世纪20位顶尖摄影家的生平与影像集于一书
◎精装精印大开本，196幅大师杰作无损呈现
◎28幅精选作品可裁切设计，便于装裱收藏
—————————————————————————————————————
《二十位人性见证者》是阮义忠的代表作品，本书介绍了在20世纪上半叶，电影还不发达，电视刚刚起步的时候，一批优秀的摄影家，用镜头叙述时代的百年，记录人生百态，揭露最真实的人性。他们的镜头里有各色各样的人物、城市和农村、战争与和平、时间与细节……同时，这些作品都打上了强烈的 个性化的印记，表达出摄影家的观念、情感以及他们观察和触摸外部世界的方式，他们是20世纪的“人性见证者”。
阮义忠参考数十部国外摄影名家专集，从独特的角度切入摄影史和摄影家生平，以生动而精辟的笔调介绍和论述了20世纪最具影响力的20位摄影家及其作品。

罗森布拉姆博士的摄影编年史是权威且客观的，按照年代和主题，对摄影这门年轻艺术的演变历程进行了完整追溯。在探究理念传播过程中摄影所扮演的多种角色的同时，罗森布拉姆博士对肖像摄影、纪实摄影、广告摄影、摄影报道，以及相机作为个人艺术表达的媒介等主题给予了特别的关注。针对摄影领域做出杰出贡献的摄影师或者某类风格的代表人物，《世界摄影史》提供了相应的人物小传。
作为对大量图文内容的补充，《世界摄影史》还编辑了七个图片集，更为深入地展现肖像、风光、社会和科学纪实、彩色摄影以及摄影报道方面的杰出范例。此外，《世界摄影史》还收录了三段技术简史，辅以相关的白描插图，清晰地阐释了摄影发展史上涉及摄影器材、材料和工艺的重要发明。针对这次的修订版本，摄影年表、术语表和参考书目均做了相应的更新，为读者提供了更多宝贵的信息。《世界摄影史》入选“十二五”国家重点出版物出版规划项目。

Les portraits que Nadar a laissés du Tout-Paris des arts vers 1850 sont étonnants de présence, d'émotion, de psychologie et d'une grande modernité.

One of the legendary classics among German photography books, August Sander's Face of Our Time, is now available again. Compiled by August Sander himself, the book was first published in 1929, with a foreword by German writer Alfred D????blin. On its first publication, it was advertised as follows: "The sixty shots of twentieth-century Germans which the author includes in his Face of Our Time represent only a small selection drawn from August Sander's major work, which he began in 1910 and which he has spent twenty years producing and adding fresh nuances to. The author has not approached this immense self-imposed task from an academic standpoint, nor with scientific aids, and has received advice neither from racial theorists nor from social researchers. He has approached his task as a photographer from his own immediate observations of human nature and human appearances, of the human environment, and with an infallible instinct for what is genuine and essential.

At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious, he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out.

With tireless personal commitment Curtis visited 80 American Indian tribes from the Mexican border to the Bering Strait, gaining their confidence through his patience and sensitivity. His work was printed in 20 volumes between 1907 and 1930 as The North American Indian, but with only 272 copies, originals became extremely rare.

This book gathers Curtis's entire American Indian portfolio into one publication, offering renewed access to and appreciation of his extraordinary achievement, which is as much a precious historical document as a triumph of the photographic form.

No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassai (1899-1984) is with Paris. From the moment he moved there in 1924, he devoted his life and art to immortalizing his adopted city—capturing the street life by day, the cafés and the Seine by night. A friend of Picasso and Henry Miller, Brassai knew and photographed the leading figures of his day—Giacometti, Sartre, Dalí, Matisse, and Mann among them. His most famous portraits and cityscapes, collected in this volume, form a unique vision of life in pre- and post-war Europe.
The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an affordable price. Handsome and collectable, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full page reproductions, a critical introduction and a full bibliography. The series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.

This addition to the affordable "Photofile series" brings together the best work of Ernst Haas, one of the world's greatest photographers. One of the early pioneers of colour photography, Haas began his photographic career in the 1940s in Vienna, rising to fame following the publication of his photo essay on returning prisoners of war from Russia. In 1951, Haas decided to make his home in New York, and became renowned for his work with motion photography and advertising campaigns for companies such as Marlboro, Chrysler and Volkswagen. With a selection of his most representative images and a bibliography for further reading, this is an ideal introduction to the photographer.