What are the classic books about photography? Today, I specially collected and sorted out the classic must-read photography books for you. I hope you like them!
On photography [beauty] Susan? Sontag, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2008)
Author: Susan May? Sontag
Translator: Huang Canran
Publishing House: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Year of publication: 2008- 1
Pages: 2 1 1
Series: Susan? Sontag anthology
ISBN: 9787532744 10
brief Introduction of the content
On Photography is not only a classic work about photography, but also a classic work about modern culture in a broad sense. It is not a professional work, and there are not many photographic terms in the book, although people interested in photography should have one; Its targets are mainly intellectuals, writers and intellectuals.
Sontag deeply discussed the essence of photography, including whether photography is art, the interaction between photography and painting, the relationship between photography and the real world, and the predatory and aggressive nature of photography. On the surface, photography reflects reality, but in fact, photographic images are a world of their own, an image world, trying to replace the real world.
For readers, the richness and profundity of On Photography lies not in what conclusion Sontag has drawn, but in her discussion process and anatomical method. This is a discussion, a calm and sharp anatomy. Wonderful, dazzling.
Sontag has always been famous for her serious style, but her satire and sarcasm are fully displayed in this book. On Photography, published in 1977, caused a sensation and widespread discussion, and won the National Book Review Award of that year, which is still known as? The Bible of Photography? .
Editor's recommendation
Susan. Sontag's "On Photography" was rated as one of the best photography works by China photography circles? The bible? Its importance in photography is irreplaceable by any theoretical monograph. There are many different versions about photography. The earliest version spread to the mainland should be compiled by Huang Handi. In 2005, the version translated by Ai Honghua and others was the most widely spread in recent years, but due to Susan? Sontag described many essential problems in photography, which led to some difficult problems in translation. After three years, the version translated by Huang Canran in 2008 is the latest and more suitable version, which is very suitable for Susan. Sontag's grammatical habits, Sontag deeply discussed the essence of photography, including whether photography is art, the interaction between photography and painting, the relationship between photography and the real world, and the predatory and aggressive nature of photography. On the surface, photography reflects reality, but in fact, photographic images are a world of their own, an image world, trying to replace the real world. This book On Photography has played a vital role in the development of world photography. It is a typical representative of photography theory to promote photography practice, and it is also a must-read for understanding, learning and studying photography.
Paper and speech at the same time (Susan? Sontag, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, published in 2009)
Author: [America] Susan? Sontag
Translator: Huang Canran
Publishing House: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Year of publication: 2009- 1
Page count: 244
ISBN: 9787532746576
brief Introduction of the content
At the same time: the thesis and speech are divided into three parts. The first part introduces the author's rarely published and unknown representative works. The second part is current affairs review. When Sontag wrote these critical articles, it was a period when American foreign policy took a sharp turn for the worse and the world situation was turbulent. The author's sharp assessment of the situation at that time and his fierce attack on the Bush administration were very predictable in retrospect, but the sharp analysis of the prisoner abuse incident in Abu Ghraib prison was not limited to the incident itself, but based on the insight of the author's two photography monographs (Metaphor of Photography and Disease), he severely criticized the American violent culture. But more importantly, she insisted on the independence of intellectuals in a harsh environment.
The third part is the speech. These speeches are the fusion of Sontag's life writing and action, and the overlapping, infiltration and deepening of her roles as essayist, novelist, public intellectual and activist from the beginning, but they are often completely different. It can be said that what she praised all her life in theory has been achieved in practice: she praised herself? Introspective energy, enthusiastic knowledge, the principle of self-sacrifice and great hope? 、? Wisdom gained from a lifetime of in-depth and long-term contact with aesthetics? 、? Courage and resistance? 、? Moral considerations? It eventually became. Your own admirer? .
At the same time, the title is taken from Susan? The title of Sontag's last speech was named the title of the book to commemorate "At the same time (Susan's essays and speeches? Sontag's Collection (Essence) The Nature of Various Voices commemorates the inseparability of her literary activities and political activities, aesthetic thinking and ethical thinking, and internal life and external life.
Editor's recommendation
It was Susan who published the paper and gave the speech at the same time? Sontag's important works before his death, 65438+February 28, 2004, Susan? Sontag died in new york due to complications of myelodysplastic syndrome. In 2009, Shanghai Translation Publishing House will publish her last collection of essays "At the same time: Prose and Speech" around the anniversary of this great woman's death to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Sontag's death. Susan. Sontag had prepared several books for writing and publishing, including two novels and a book about diseases, and hoped to finish her last essay before she died, but she died before these books were finished. At the same time: Prose and Speech is named after Susan? The title of Sontag's last speech is to commemorate the nature of various voices in Being: Essays and Speeches, and the inseparability of her literary and political activities, aesthetic thinking and ethical thinking, and inner life and external life. It is also very close to the last composition she expected. This book is divided into three parts. The first part introduces the author's rarely published and unknown representative works. The second part is current affairs review; The third part is the speech.
"Ming room" (Farolan? Bart, translated by Zhao Kefei, Culture and Art Publishing House, 2003)
Subtitle: Talking about Photography
Author: (French) roland barthes
Translator: Zhao Kefei
Publishing House: Culture and Art Publishing House
Year of publication: 2003- 1- 1
Page number: 187
ISBN: 97875039229 16
brief Introduction of the content
The content of "Ming Room: Photography Talk" is: Realist, and I am one of them. When I affirm that photography is a meaningless image, even if those meanings obviously change the interpretation of photos, I am already a realist, and I don't take photos as objects at all? Copy? Instead of thinking of it as? Enlightenment from past reality? ; what's up Magic? Not art, learning photos has a kind of proof, which is not aimed at objects, but at time. According to the phenomenological point of view, the probative power of photos is stronger than expressive power.
Editor's recommendation
Roland? Barthes is a famous French structuralist literary theorist and cultural critic, and also one of the pioneers of semiotics research. Roland? Bart's Ming Room: Talking about Photography is a book focusing on the nature of photography, focusing on the existence of photography and what photos carry. Ever existed? Give your opinion, Roland? In this book, Bart does not want to talk about what photography is, but deeply analyzes the social culture reflected by the function of photography. For photographers and photographers, this book is extremely worth reading. The first edition of this book was published in 1995, the second edition in 2003 attracted the attention and praise of many cultural scholars, and the third edition was also published in early 201/.
"Welcome to the era of fading light" (Walter? Benjamin, Guangxi Normal University Press, published in 2004)
Subtitle: Benjamin in Art
Author: [Germany] Walter? Benjamin
Translator: Xu Qiling/Lin Zhiming
Press: Guangxi Normal University Press
Publication year: August 2004
Page number: 158
ISBN:9787563345 137
brief Introduction of the content
"Towards the Age of Losing Aura: Benjamin's Art" (read the picture) is Benjamin W's work Lighting (1970). This paper discusses how art and its products have undergone qualitative and quantitative changes in the historical context because of the invention of artistic production tools, and how this changing process has penetrated into the cultural field, thus redefining the power in the cultural field. By introducing the sharp thoughts of Benjamin and W., we can get a glimpse of the evolution of various arts in modern times and their hidden side after combining with science and technology.
Editor's recommendation
Facing the Lost Time is the most important literary critic and philosopher in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Benjamin's monograph on image criticism, the influence of this book has been affecting the photography world today, and this book is also the first time that Benjamin put forward the significance of the existence of handmade works. This book is divided into four chapters, namely, A Brief History of Photography, Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Painting and Photography, and China Exhibition of the French National Library. Benjamin has been inculcating the most important chapter of this book, A Brief History of Photography? Lingguang? This word was discussed by Benjamin in this way:? Does the exposure process make the subject not? Live broadcast? For the moment of taking pictures, but? Live broadcast? In the process of long exposure, he seems to have been in the play. ? What is popular in photography today? Retro sports? It also confirms Benjamin's theory that the debate about whether photography belongs to the art category in classical painting is precisely the painting's doubt about the recording method of photographic slices. In the later photography technology, the control and mastery of darkness inadvertently lost the image? Lingguang? This is also the reason why early portrait photography is better than middle portrait photography. We gain the ability to control the darkness, but we lose the ability to reveal the subject? Lingguang? We have to admire such a thinker's profound understanding of the essential details of things.
17 a new generation of images in contemporary photography (published by Ruan, China Photography Publishing House, 1990).
Author: [Taiwan Province] Ruan
Publishing House: China Photography Publishing House
Year of publication: 1990-3
Page count: 253
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 9787800070525
brief Introduction of the content
Photography, an art that has lasted for a century and a half, is showing unparalleled witness and ethics with its true and tax-paying characteristics, and implies infinite possibilities for future development. More and more photographers are also trying to create their own uniqueness.
Ruan, the author of this book, has consulted European and American photography books and picture books for decades, deeply discussed the creative ideas and styles of many contemporary cutting-edge photographers, and wrote this photo collection containing 17 photographers, which is a coherent series with the previous book "20 Witnesses to the Humanity of Contemporary Photographers". The style of the book is friendly and lively, with quotations and alternate narratives, which can show the photographer's mind, cultivation and views. Clear words and carefully printed pictures are enough for readers to understand the process of Rosenberg, Uthman, Sodek, Berry, Gibson, Wiggin, De Badong, Foucault and others exploring the new realm of images.
Editor's recommendation
This book is an important work that Ruan introduced to western photographers. Now it seems that the cutting-edge photographer of that year has become an important photographer in the world. Ruan introduced Cindy comprehensively in this book through her perennial understanding of photography. Sherman, Jerry? Hello, Joe? Peter. Mary Wiggin? Irene. Marco, Baynard? Falcon, Jane? Soder, Lee? Free country, Duane? Michaels and other world-class photographers' creative process, and analyzed their works. And through the early creative practice of these photographers, they recorded every step on their photographic road. These materials have become an indispensable factor for a comprehensive understanding of an artist's creation, and also provide many important comparative materials for young workers engaged in video creation today.
Brief introduction of the author
Ruan, born in Taiwan Province, 1950, loved art in his early years. At the age of 20, he worked as an editor in Young Lion Literature and Art magazine, then moved to the English edition of han sheng magazine and began to take photos. 65438-0975 worked as a photography editor in Family Monthly, writing articles for local photography directors. 198 1 year began to make movies, and published more than 200 documentaries such as Journey of Images, Outdoor Notes and Skillful Hands. His works "Twenty Witnesses of Human Nature, Contemporary Photographers", "Modern Photography" and "Seven Questions of Photography Aesthetics" have aroused great repercussions in the photography field. His five photo collections, Beipu, Bazimen, Man and Land, Rumors of Taipei and Four Seasons, have made him a world-famous photographer. He also founded? Ruan photography studio? And photographer's magazine. Have you ever taught at school? National Art Institute? , now engaged in charity.
Twenty Witnesses of Contemporary Photographers' Humanity (published by Ruan, China Photography Publishing House, 1988).
Author: Ruan
Publishing House: China Photography Publishing House
Publication year:1March, 988
Page count: 284
ISBN:9787800070 136
brief Introduction of the content
Mr Ruan now lives in Taiwan Province Province, China. He has profound attainments in the research of photography theory, and is also one of the famous photographers in Taiwan Province Province. This book refers to dozens of picture albums of famous foreign photographers, and introduces the life experiences and image styles of twenty outstanding photographers such as Sander, Bresson, Kappa, Albus and Kodeka in a friendly and lively style. Vivid metaphors and incisive quotations are interspersed among them, which is more readable. The edition of the section adopts the form of album appreciation page, and the printing strives to be faithful to the requirements of the original in tone level and texture for readers to enjoy.
Editor's recommendation
Ruan, the author of this book and a famous photographer in Taiwan Province Province, introduced and interpreted 20 photographers who have made outstanding contributions in the history of photography, helping us to look at historical development and social changes from the perspective of human nature in our works. Because movies have not developed in the first half of the 20th century, and television has just started, photography has become the most important means of image recording in the times and society, and outstanding photographers with humanistic care have become? A witness to human nature? . Their works widely show the reality of social life, various figures, cities and rural areas, war and peace, time and details. At the same time, these works have strong personalized marks, expressing photographers' thoughts and emotions and the way they observe and touch the outside world. This book is an important reading for learning and understanding the history of photography. It breaks the boring editing method of the original historical books, but starts from one case by one and deepens readers' understanding of 60 years of photography in Europe through illustrated presentation. In the 1970s, the understanding of appearance was presented, and the history of photography and the life of photographers were cut into from a unique perspective. This paper describes and discusses the 20 most influential photographers and their works in the 20th century by narrative, short stories and jumping. The author's style of writing has reached a simple and rich realm.
"Photography? Society? Space (edited by Zheng Gu, published by Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House on 20 10)
Author: Editor-in-Chief Zheng Gu
Publishing House: Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House
Publication year: 20 10-04
Page number: 180
ISBN: 9787545205046
brief Introduction of the content
"Photography? Society? What is the theme of space? Photography? Society? Space? The four articles (including a translation) included in this small series attempt to make an interdisciplinary investigation on this topic from different angles and disciplines. This effort also includes an attempt to investigate the social practice of photography in an interdisciplinary way. For example, income "Photography? Society? The article "The Function of Images: The Possibility of Images as the Means of Expression and Intervention in Urban Renewal" in Space is written by Ms. Vagrancy, a young sociologist.
Editor's recommendation
Although this book is very theoretical, there is no lack of attention to excellent photographers. The interviews with two photographers, Zhu Hao and Angle Luo, published in this book will definitely have an impact on people who are keen on photography theory. Brainstorm? Such as intellectual stimulation. Feng Yuan's prose and Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama's prose also add a lot of color to this book. Of course, information is also the direction of the editor-in-chief of this book, which is reflected in book reviews and critical reports. And then what? Concept ferry? This column is not only the translation and introduction of the classic texts of photographic culture research, but also independent and can be recognized in the broad vision of overseas information.
Selected Theories of Western Photography Literature (Revised Edition) (Zheng Gu, Zhejiang Photography Publishing House, 2007)
Author: Zheng Gu
Publishing House: Zhejiang Photography Publishing House
Publication year: 2007-2008
Page number: 133
ISBN: 9787806864982
brief Introduction of the content
The default object of Selected Works of Western Photographic Literature (revised edition) has not been released from the beginning. Doing theory? People are the main target, but teachers and students who are engaged in and accept higher photography education and photographers are the main readers. On the other hand, photography and photography education in China are always practical-oriented, blindly emphasizing practical skills and neglecting theory, which also leads to the present neglect? Theory? One of the reasons. Of course, there are inevitable difficulties, such as? Theory? There is a shortage of talents, but this does not mean that the above people are not interested in theory. The only problem is, so far, we haven't got a car that people think we can afford? Photography? Selected works of literary theory.
Editor's recommendation
Although this book is one of the professional series teaching materials of the School of Photography of Beijing Film Academy, its reader orientation is not limited to? Trained? . The excerpts of this book cover a wide range of contents, from the historical prose of professional academic masters to the relaxed and humorous writing of great photographers like Bresson, which is worth studying. /kloc-in the 9th century, photography was born with the technological change, and with the urbanization and civilization of western society, the theoretical system of photography was born. Therefore, as an overview of western theories, this book is a must-read in the industry.
Brief introduction of the author
Zheng Gu, 65438-0959, born in Shanghai, Ph.D. (Comparative Culture). Now he is a professor at Fudan University School of Journalism. Main research fields: 20th century modern art, photography history, China contemporary documentary photography practice, visual communication, etc. He is the author of the history of human photography in the world, post-modern photography abroad, modern photography practice in the 20th century without truth behind it, and the labyrinth of self? Me? "Urban Expression", "Urban Photography in the 20th Century", "World Photography History" and so on.
Visual Culture Reader (Luo Gang, Guangxi Normal University Press, published in 2003)
Author: Luo Gang
Press: Guangxi Normal University Press
Year of publication: 2003- 12- 1
Page count: 378
ISBN: 9787563343058
brief Introduction of the content
In the era of efficiency, vision transcends hearing, and images dominate words. The real-time (live) transmission of images in electronic media has unparalleled advantages and temptations. Film, television, drama, photography, painting, fashion, advertising, image design, network audio-visual and all other media that provide viewing information are included? Visual culture? Various images are constructing the communication system of visual cultural symbols. ? Visual culture? It seems to have evolved into a complex and messy concept. In the preface of this book, editor Luo Gang? Visual culture? The concept is standardized, and the comparison is said in peace? Visual arts? Made a distinction, he thought? There is an important difference between visual culture and visual art, that is, visual culture has changed the place where people watch images. Visual culture draws people's attention from well-structured formal viewing places such as cinemas and art galleries to the center of visual experience in daily life. ? It's like Eret? Rogov pointed out: A painting we noticed may come from the cover of a book or an advertisement; Watching TV is a part of family life, not just the individual behavior of the viewer; We can watch movies on videotape, plane or cable TV, just like watching movies in traditional cinemas. Just as cultural studies try to understand the way people create meaning in mass cultural consumption, visual culture first studies the visual experience of people's daily life. In the process of watching, people can also see the classics, but the image classics are given a completely different meaning at this time. So, the so-called? The era of reading pictures? The arrival of the new century means that diversified visual research not only enters people's daily life, but also changes the whole social structure. This requires researchers to have new awareness of problems and methods. ? Visual culture research? It just provides an opportunity to establish such a new theoretical field. The Visual Culture Reader shows the possibilities and achievements of various studies. Undoubtedly, whether it is the photography technology emphasized in Benjamin's era or the rapid development of network technology today, is it? Visual culture? Technical platform developed. With the development of modern communication technology, image technology and electronic information technology have gradually flourished. Virtual space? Into the real space. Visual culture? It has more and more influence on people's daily life. Live television has changed the way movies are recorded in the past, and at the same time, it shows what happened in the distance. More importantly, it also means that the subject will see, listen and perceive the life world more nervously and effectively. The whole world appears remotely in an instant, and the fantasy about this world spreads rapidly without restriction. In the book? The way to see and daily life? The first chapter analyzes how visual culture enters our daily life. Time and space seem to blend together under the influence of technology. Modern culture is increasingly turning to vision as the center, and the arrival of the era of visual culture marks the transformation and formation of a cultural form. The articles in Visual Culture Reader respectively responded to this trend. Visual culture? Eye of the eye, come? Watch? The world does not simply regard culture as an ideological thing reflected by reality, but regards culture as the main way to form and change reality and plays a dynamic role in the process of constructing the material world.
Editor's recommendation
Where is this book? Popular? Belong to the category of. Visual culture? Watch and reflect calmly. This book not only covers the topics of painting, film, photography, sculpture and other art forms, but also looks at it from more perspectives? Visual culture? This very broad vocabulary is explained by different disciplines in this book? Visual culture? What are the topics discussed? What is visual culture? 、? The way to see and daily life? 、? Body and space? 、? Politics of gender and gaze? 、? Race, identity and subjectivity? There are many western theoretical and cultural works in the more than 20 works collected by itself, such as? Susan. Sontag, Jane? Baudrillard, Benjamin, Bourdieu, McLuhan, etc. , can be said to be a diverse collection of visual culture theories, which provides many important theoretical basis for visual culture workers.
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