Since it was first developed by Daguerre in the 1840s, photography has followed an interesting and varied course in its progress from a practical means of documentation to an art form with its own icons, heroes, galleries and collectors. This text contains every sort of photography, all of it arranged in an easily accessible format. Pictures of famous events such as the Royal Wedding and the first landing on the moon are here, next to familiar shots by the masters of photography such as Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cecil Beaton and Robert Doisneau. There is fashion, sport, natural history, reportage and society portraiture, as well as social documentary and art. The 500 photographers featured range from William Henry Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron to Larry Clarke and Herb Rittz, from Robert Capa and Josef Kondelka to Nan Goldin and Pierre et Gilles. Arranged alphabetically, each full-page photograph is accompanied by an illuminating text which gives insight into the work and its creator, as well as cross-references to others working in the same field or the same style.

Expanded from an earlier catalogue of the same title, Still Time accompanied a traveling exhibition featuring more than twenty years of Sally Mann's photography. Still Time celebrates an artist whose acute perceptions and imagination embrace not only the photographs of children for which she is renowned, but also earlier landscapes, and the unexpected, compelling forays into color and abstract photography. The sixty images include abstract platinum prints, Cibachromes and Polaroids, landscapes, portraits of women and twelve-year-olds, and her celebrated family pictures. Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in./80 pgs

Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.

艾略特・厄威特从20世纪40年代就拿起了相机，1954年加入玛格南图片社。摄影让他的足迹遍布全球，而他的照片也出现在无数展览与摄影书之中。《艾略特・厄威特：快照集》中收录了超过500张照片，其中很多都从未公开，这本画册为我们打开了一扇独特的窗口，来一窥厄威特的视界。从1959年尼克松与赫鲁晓夫在莫斯科博览会上争吵的著名照片，到玛莉莲・梦露在《乱点鸳鸯谱》拍摄现场的照片，再到许多凭个人兴趣拍摄的照片，厄威特风格狡黠独特，在跨越半个多世纪的时间中，名流或者普通人，怪异的或者日常的，数不清的地点、物件、动物和人，统统被我们时代最棒的摄影师之一捕捉下来。由穆雷・塞尔撰写前言，查尔斯・弗劳尔斯撰写内文，《艾略特・厄威特：快照集》无疑是迄今为止最大最全的厄威特作品集。 艾略特·厄威特（Elliott Erwitt），他的照片比他的名字更容易被人记住。如果说他的名声只限于摄影艺术，那么他的照片早已享誉世界。那张尼克松与赫鲁晓夫在博览会上争论的照片，早已成为冷战的象征之一而被无数报纸、杂志、网络所转载，甚至出现在教科书或历史课试卷上。而另一张，皮靴与小狗，则成为摄影界最脍炙人口的作品，任何一位对摄影略有了解的人，都会与这张作品混个脸儿熟。再说说《快照集》中的第一张照片，如今悬挂在美国的非洲裔美国人博物馆，“white”与“colored”两个分开的饮水池，将种族歧视的千言万语浓缩为一张图像。这张照片也在徕卡相机的百年纪念片中得到演绎。值得一提的是，艾略特·厄威特的作品在这部顶级相机的2分钟影片中出现了两张，仅少于布列松——厄威特也是玛格南中的徕卡M系拥趸之一，《快照集》中几乎所有135的作品都是用徕卡拍摄的。至于徕卡影片中厄威特的另一张，读者可以自己去《快照集》中去寻找。这张照片早已被大众“玩坏儿”，甚至《辛普森一家》也有向大师“致敬”。 幽默，是贯穿厄威特作品的不变主题，就连本书章节的编排，摄影师也玩弄了一下视觉和言语的双关语，这也为《快照集》的中文翻译提出了一个小小的挑战。九个英文动词构成本书的九个主题：Read、Rest、Touch、Stand、Tell、Point、Look、Move、Play。最初选择两个字的中文词与之对应。但考虑到一个英文单词对应中文有不同的意思，后决定采用汉语言单位中最小的独立运用单位——单音节语素与之对应。如Move，有移动、运动之意，也有触动、感动之意，单用一“动”字更加贴切。 这本厚达544页的《快照集》涵盖了厄威特一生的重要作品，它们来自两架相机——一架用于工作、一架用于爱好。两架相机的作品一同向世人展现了人间悲喜剧。厄威特睿智地通过照片向人们展示了悲剧与惨剧，喜剧与闹剧的区别。所以《快照集》中没有饥馑与战争，也没有聚光灯和名利场。有的，只是生活，命运，我们每个人都要面对“命”。那么，何为《快照集》（Snaps）？快门“咔嚓”的声音，也是“人一叩”的声音……

Aimed at professionals and beginners alike: the first systematic attempt to find out how photographers of world stature approach their work, and what it is that makes them succeed. This essential new guide to photography draws upon in-depth interviews with established photographers from the fields of fashion, art, portraiture, documentary photography, and advertising as well as comments from picture editors, curators, agency directors, and publishers who reveal what they look for when choosing an image. The book first focuses on photographers' working practices, from how Mario Sorrenti got the inspiration to photograph a naked Kate Moss draped over a couch for the iconic Calvin Klein campaign to how the Dutch portrait photographer Rineke Dijkstra gets the best out of her subjects. What made the photographer start taking pictures? How did he or she develop a signature style? What is the process involved in going from concept to shoot? How important is postproduction? Then the book turns to selection. How does the picture editor of the New York Times Magazine decide which photographer to commission for the next fashion spread? What kind of photograph, according to the Senior Curator of London's Photographers Gallery, is worthy of being hung in a gallery? What advice would art book publisher Gerhard Steidl give a budding photographer? Whether it is the question of what to look for in an image, views on cropping, or the pros and cons of color versus black and white, the shapers of taste give acute and useful accounts of their methods. 150+ illustrations in color and black and white.