WHY IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE IN FOCUS: MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLAINED

Book ID/图书代码： 11180014B67882

English Summary/英文概要： Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13 , 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Red Ceiling , 1973)? In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus , Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern photography. Choosing 100 key photographs with particular emphasis on the last twenty years she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. In doing so, she brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred, overexposed or badly composed. The often controversial works discussed in this book play with our expectations of a photograph, our ingrained tendency to believe that it is telling us the unadorned truth. Jackie Higginss book proves once and for all that theres much more to the art of photography than just pointing and clicking.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为何拍摄自己的肖像，却要用灯泡模糊了自己的面庞（李•弗雷德兰德，普罗温斯顿，鳕鱼角，马萨诸塞州1968）？又为何刻意地在拍摄照片的时候曝光不足？（薇拉•鲁特，巴特西发电站，6：6月13日，2004）？抑或者为何要拍摄天花板（威廉•伊格斯顿，红色天花板，1973）？在本书中，杰基•希金斯将带领你走进一个生动、丰富多彩的现代摄影世界。作者在书中选取了100张各有侧重的关键性照片，在过去的20年中，她研究了究竟是什么在最初时刻影响了每一位摄影师，并追寻这些细节是如何发生作用的。通过这样的一种方式，她带领我们看到了不同层次的意义以及这些独一无二的作品背后的艺术技巧，其中有些起初便因模糊、过度曝光或奇怪的组合而缺失。而在本书中最具争议的莫过于我们对一张摄影作品的期望，我们那些根深蒂固的习惯，想要去相信照片告诉我们的是最朴实最真实的现实。杰基•希金斯再一次永久性的向我们证明了摄影艺术绝不仅仅是对焦和按下快门如此简单。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：如果你希望能有一本关于当代摄影艺术的口袋书，那么《为何摄影无须对焦》将让你获得一个良好的开始。----《每日电讯报》

一本十分棒的书籍----极具创造性、令人不由得为其争论不止。---《业余摄影师》

If you’re after a pocket primer in contemporary art photography, Why It Does Not Have to Be In Focus offers an incisive starting point. --The Daily Telegraph

It’s a great book - inventive, and persuasively argued. --Amateur Photographer

About the Author/作者介绍： 杰基•希金斯，作家、记者、影片制作人。过去20年中，她制作并指导了BBC、4台、国家地理、探索与发现频道等的多部电影纪录片的拍摄，有关于人类学、自然历史及科学等。杰基著有大量关于摄影的书籍，她本人也十分热衷于现代摄影技术。她还是参与了《摄影》一书的创作，并著有作品《大卫•贝利:注视》。

Jackie Higgins is a writer, journalist and filmmaker. Over the past two decades she has produced and directed films for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel on anthropology, natural history and science. Jackie has written extensively about photography, and has a particular interest in contemporary practice. She was a contributing writer to Photography: The Whole Story, and is the author of David Bailey: Look.

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