An exciting monograph dedicated to an extraordinary figure and one of last century’s most famous and influential artists. Man Ray (1890-1976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films, and images which were at times enigmatic. This catalog, which presents more than 200 works and compares and contrasts images with biographical details, is divided into three main sections: Man Ray’s formative years spent between New York and an artists’ colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey; the Paris period; and the period spent between Hollywood and Paris, France-the city he ultimately chose to adopt as his home.
The publication describes the creation of some of his most famous pieces and the motifs-very often of females-that inspired the works. Man Ray’s life was marked by a succession of love affairs with famous and intriguing women, and this catalog dedicates several sections to this topic.
The book also deals with the themes permeating Man Ray’s work throughout the years, such as his passion for chess, the relationship between reality and illusion, and experimental photography and film. Comparisons are also made with the works of some of the most important artists of the twentieth century, such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, and Francis Picabia.

Between 1949 and 1953, Robert Frank continually returned to Europe from his new home in New York to take photographs in France, Switzerland, Spain, and Great Britain, photographs that show the development of his uniquely humanist, poetic, and realist eye. In 1951 and early 1952, Frank visited London--"I liked the light, I liked the fog."--and set out to photograph the unique atmosphere of the city. He followed British financiers around the City, capturing them in their traditional top hats and long coats, creating images that depict them in a poetic dance with their fog-shrouded environment. He shot pictures of workers, men delivering coal, children playing on the streets, people waiting or relaxing in the parks, and images of poverty. In these photographs he juxtaposed money and work, wealth and poverty, creating a dynamic photographic project that has never been shown before in its entirety. Then, in March 1953, before the impending nationalization of the country's coal mines, Frank travelled to the town of Careau, in Wales, to photograph the coal miners whose lives revolved around their work. One miner, Ben James, and his family became the subject of a picture essay (originally published in a 1955 issue of U.S. Camera) in which Frank downplayed the classic modernist photographic moment in favor of a more provocative form that offered informal, revealing glances rather than an official document.
In Robert Frank: London/Wales, Frank returns for the first time to these old negatives. The volume explores a stylistic transformation in his work, a period of development which saw his mode of photography move from an innovative romanticism to a highly charged, metaphorical realism. These two consecutive projects, realized in London and Wales between 1951 and 1953, set the stage for his truly groundbreaking documentary, The Americans, completed just a few years later.
You got eyes. --Jack Kerouac writing about photographer Robert Frank
Introduction by Philip Brookman.
Hardcover, 9 x 11 in., 208 pages, 90 Tritones illustrations

Josef Koudelka has consistently produced images that provoke a connection to the larger questions of human existence. This volume is the first to present his most eloquent images in a single volume. Spans Koudelkaâs entire career, from his earliest work with the Semafor Theatre in 1960s Prague to his most recent landscape studies in Camargue, France.

Revered as a father of modern photography, August Sander (1876– 1964) so refined the art of portraiture that his moving images of his fellow countrymen have been heralded both as an important sociological document and a photographic masterpiece. But those images make up only a portion of this deluxe seven-volume set, which will stand as the definitive collection of Sander's considerable achievement.
The books include some 150 never-before-seen images and essays by leading experts on the German photographer's work. Praising Sander's "vision . . . his knowledge, and his immense photographic talent," the writer Alfred Döblin said: "Those who know how to look will learn from his clear and powerful photographs, and will discover more about themselves and more about others."

　　记录许多着名摄影师的访谈，畅谈他们对摄影的看法，以及他们在参与拍摄电影过程，与各个导演合作的经验。片中并穿插经典片段，对映摄影师的说法，让一般观眾能更了解摄影师的工作与贡献。
　　严格来说，这并不是一部电影，应该说是“关于电影的纪录片”更合适。在这部电影中 ，我们也能发现以上介绍过的多部影片。例如《梦断情天》的摄影师Nestor Almendros，他在临死之前接受了这部电影的短暂采访。还有《末代皇帝》的摄影师Storaro等人。
　　从某种意义上说，是导演控制摄影师的拍摄手法。例如，《Rosemary's Baby》的导演Roman Polanski，在接受采访时多次提到，有时仅仅需要将摄像机多移动几个厘米，就能使影片的效果得到巨大提升。《In Cold Blood》的导演Conrad Hall，在1967年接受采访时，提到当年是如何选择并搭建了一个牢房，里面囚禁的是Robert Blake扮演的杀人犯，他即将走上绞刑架。雨水不停地打在铁窗上。Hall发现，如果摄像机放在某个特定的角度，雨滴的阴影看上去像Blake脸上的泪水。这个镜头后来成了影院中的催泪弹。
　　这部电影由数百个电影片段组成。影片结束后，你一定会深深地被摄像机背后的灵感和魔法打动。而静态摄影师也将从中获益匪浅。这是一部摄影科教片，数百个片段将指导你如何用光，如何选择合适的色调，如何使你的片子成为经典。
　　这部电影按年代划分为三个部分，第一部分是无声电影年代。第二部分是带旁白的黑白电影时期。第三部分是彩色电影时期。影片最后讨论了如何利用不同的色彩调动观众的情绪。

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When it comes to photography, it’s all about the light.
After spending more than thirty years behind the lens—working for National Geographic , Time , Life , and Sports Illustrated —Joe McNally knows about light. He knows how to talk about it, shape it, color it, control it, and direct it. Most importantly, he knows how to create it...using small hot shoe flashes.
In The Hot Shoe Diaries , Joe brings you behind the scenes to candidly share his lighting solutions for a ton of great images. Using Nikon Speedlights, Joe lets you in on his uncensored thought process—often funny, sometimes serious, always fascinating—to demonstrate how he makes his pictures with these small flashes. Whether he’s photographing a gymnast on the Great Wall, an alligator in a swamp, or a fire truck careening through Times Square, Joe uses these flashes to create great light that makes his pictures sing.
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本书的关注点可以说是视觉文化的中心议题——图像与观看，作者将观看的理论与历史纳入客观世界图像形式的变迁之中，在涉及面极广的论题下搭建起成熟而严密的阐释结构。技术的演进和观看之道的相互影响与促进使人们开始关注这个本来作为人类最直接而简单的感官反应背后的意义。无可否认，各种媒介的介入使图像以更迅猛的速度冲击着人们的生活，不光是艺术史范畴内视觉的变革，日常生活中的图像也在深刻地改变着人类的思维模式和行为方式。作者立足时代背景，通过对观看背后的各种机制与理论的分析，结合丰赡的例证和图像资料，精彩地完成了国人对视觉文化理论研究的一次尝试。

Book Description
Images of the century (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) The history of photography began some 150 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne's Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection, from which this book is drawn, is one of the most important in Germany and one of the most representative anywhere in the world, constituting the core of the museum's holdings. This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection's rich diversity; from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage, all of the major movements and genres are represented via a vast selection of the century's most remarkable photographs. From Ansel Adams to Piet Zwart, over 850 works are presented in alphabetical order by photographer, with descriptive texts and photographers' biographical details, providing a comprehensive and indispensable overview of 20th century photography.
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Through the lens of a microscope or the shaft of a telescope exists a universe of boundless life and beauty, that is entirely invisible to the naked eye. Atoms, ice crystals, grains of pollen, snowflakes, butterfly wings, cloud formations, searing comets, and showers of stars are born, live and die. The unprecedented scope of "Heaven & Earth" offers an awe-inspiring voyage of discovery through this infinite world that is science - from the smallest particles on the earth's surface to tiny dots in galaxies that are billions of light years away. Revealing the extensive range of matter contained in the cosmos, this book navigates a fascinating trajectory through an unexplored world, to celebrate the immeasurable beauty and countless mysteries of planet earth and the universe. It charts - chapter by chapter - intricate landscapes of increasing scale and distance, captured by microscope, x-ray, satellite and telescope. Each magnificent photograph is accompanied by an extended caption that explains it in detail, offering a dose of scientific information that enables us to associate with it on a human scale. This volume presents a unique and richly illustrated insight into the momentous relation between aesthetics and nature, in the light of nature's magnitude and its complexity of life. The result is the ultimate fusion of art and science, through a sequence of images that are as subtle as they are stupendous.

With these pictures, Leonie Purchas (Hampton) presents a new and innovative photographic approach to the human condition. The photographer chose to take an introspective look at herself through the members of her family. The resulting photos form a highly personal and emotional record of life in the Purchas (Hampton) household, in which both the photographer and the other members of the family show their vulnerability. By exposing this vulnerability, Purchas (Hampton) breaks through the distance that often separates photographer and subject. The camera shields and at the same time opens up a world that is entirely familiar, yet nevertheless reveals itself anew.

这本书的宗旨是从青岛人的生活来表现青岛的变迁，尤其是表现改革开放三十年来青岛的巨大变化。但这本书使用了大量的篇幅来表现青岛的老街、里院、蜗居、老移民。这是青岛的过去、年轻青岛身上的老旧，是光亮青岛下不向阳的所在，是最可能被忽略的城市皱褶里的生活。这是年轻青岛身上正在更新、正在老去的细胞，转瞬即逝，所以这部分的记录也特别重要和感人。对于体察青岛的变化，这是不可或缺的图像。没有这部分图像，就建立不起青岛生活变迁的参照系。就纯摄影而言，这也是作者最见功力、最见感情、也是最重要的作品。
青岛正年轻，但她的第一代人民正逐渐老去，有如细胞的更新。他们是青岛第一代移民，城市的开拓者。青岛人不能忘记他们。青岛之外的我们，也能从中看到农民向城市迁移、扎根、奋斗为一个城市人的艰苦历程。在当下城市化进程中，我们许许多多的人们正在重复这个过程。这本书的青岛老移民告诉我们，对于大多数进城者而言，艰苦奋斗是个必然，草根生活是个常态，第一代移民注定需要付出更多更多方能被这块土地接纳。要经历整整一代人的努力，第二代移民方能从心灵里认同青岛这块土地，自然而然地说我是“青岛人”，而不是像他们的先辈说我是“即墨人”，我是“枣庄人”，我是“阳谷人”。

导演关本良、姜秀琼追随李屏宾的足迹，走访日本、法国、挪威等地，除了忠实记录李屏宾的工作状态，平时隐身在摄影机后的大师也首度在镜头前，畅谈自己的学习、成长、手法与哲学。

Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as un-peopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizeable portion of his oeuvre is given over to portraits. In fact, the beginnings of Sudek's work are in portraiture, in his images of fellow patients at the veteran's hospital where he spent three years after the First World War. (It was here that Sudek's right arm was amputated after a battlefield injury, a misfortune which did not prevent him from using heavy, large-format cameras in the future.) Decades later, after he had co-founded the Czech Photographic Society in 1924 and established his signature neo-Romantic preoccupation with architectural Prague, he returned to the genre. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Sudek photographed close friends, among them the poet and Nobel Laureate Jaroslav Seifert, many painters and writers, but also scientists, doctors, politicians, architects, actors and other important public figures in Czechoslovakia. "Portraits," the second volume of Sudek's collected photographs, gathers this body of work. In addition to a chronology of Sudek's life, it includes a complete bibliography and list of his exhibitions, as well as an interview with Jan Rezac, Sudek's colleague and an expert on his work.

La collection 55 au format poche rend hommage à tous les styles et toutes les tendances de la photographie. Chaque ouvrage comporte une introduction, se consacre à l'oeuvre d'un seul artiste à travers 55 de ses principales photographies. Chaque titre retrace l'histoire du photographe.

A documentary that follows the life of photographer Daido Moriyama in the present, which has never been revealed before. Even though his charismatic presence has reigned over the world of photography since the late 60’s, his true persona had been hidden behind a veil of mystery, since he had refused any major appearances in front of any media in the past. Follow the charismatic photographer Daido Moriyama as he takes his first digital photos and observe his style of quick snapshots without looking in the finder. His stark and contrasting black and white images symbolize his fervent lifestyle.