西藏面具是西藏特殊历史和文化背景下的精神产物。它既根源于原始宗教信仰，也依存于人的现实精神需要。这也就是面具在西藏长盛不衰的根基和原因。
修订一部深受读者欢迎的音乐通史，目的不是推倒重写，而是提高它的时代性。看惯前几版的读者，会觉得此书不论外貌或者内容改动甚大，但章次和范围基本未变。收名中加上“西方”一词，说明我们意识到西欧和南北美洲的音乐体系不过是世界文明的诸音乐体系之一。本书范围的又一局限在于只谈“艺术音乐”；而必须承认，“艺术音乐”这一概念本身便十分含糊。通俗音乐、爵士乐以及诸如此类的品种确已有相当高深的技巧，但不能期望本书同等对待西方音乐的这一广大支系（如今已成为独立的研究课题），常规的音乐史教程也未必能等同视之，而本书不过是一本常规音乐史的手册。
《乐学轨范唐部乐器图说之研究》以韩国、朝鲜15世纪官修乐书《乐学轨范》唐部乐器图说为研究对象，通过比较中、韩、日宫廷乐器，参考相关历史文献、考古资料，对传入朝鲜半岛的中国乐器的名称、形制、功能、演奏方式及韩围化过程，进行分门别类地考察，并结合朝鲜半岛对中国乐器的接受与习得过程，对朝鲜半岛三个历史时期的音乐机构的创设、发展沿革进行了细致的梳理。全书逻辑清晰、条理明畅、图文并茂，是一部较好的学术专著，它充实了韩围音乐史的内容，也丰富和深化了我们对东亚音乐文化交流史，中国古代音乐文化传播史的认识。
Whether they are of Abu Dhabi, California, Egypt or Emilia, all of the images he produces are lit with a constant physical light and elements that this photographer seems to always have with him the way he does with his camera bag, and through which all he wants to do is observe the world. I find such an aesthetic to be more that of a painter than a photographer somehow. Better yet, that of a post-documentary or neo-pictorialist photographer, who experiences and conceives his work to be the exprssive gesture of an artist for whom the subject is above all the opportunity for a tremendous but constant variation in his view of the world.
The American Kennel Club recognizes over 160 breeds of dogs inseven categories: Hound, Working, Sporting, Non-sporting, Terrier,Toy and Herding. Thousands of Americans own purebred show dogs, andyear round, local kennel clubs host events at which judges evaluatehow closely individual dogs conform to breed standard. Ribbons andtrophies are bestowed and points are accumulated. The penultimateevent in a show dog s life is Westminster held in New York everyyear since 1877 which attracts hordes of visitors and aninternational media bonanza. In 2005 Life magazine assignedphotographer Kate Lacey to cover Westminster. She decided thatinstead of documenting the scene, she would rig up a seamlessbackdrop to make elegant portraits, much as Richard Avedon oncecaptured glamorous celebrities. Though partial to poodle mutt mixesherself, on this assignment Kate became entranced by show dogs, andtheir exquisite grooming and acclimatization to attention made themready subjects. After the assignment ended, she continued travel
ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS presents the full spectrum ofAdams' work in a single volume for the first time, offering thelargest available compilation from his legendary photographiccareer. Beautifully produced and presented in an attractivelandscape trim, ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS will appeal to ageneral gift-book audience as well as Adams' legions of dedicatedfans and students. The photographs are arranged chronologically into five majorperiods, from his first photographs made in Yosemite and the HighSierra in 1916 to his work in the National Parks in the 1940s up tohis last important photographs from the 1960s. An introduction andbrief essays on selected images provide information aboutAdams'life, document the evolution of his technique, and give voice tohis artistic vision. Few artists of any era can claim to have produced four hundredimages of lasting beauty and significance. It is a testament toAdams' vision and lifetime of hard work that a book of this scalecan be compiled. ANSEL
* Digital SLR camera sales are estimated at 2.7 million units in 2005 and 4.5 million units in 2006; digital SLR cameras costing less than $500 are expected by the end of 2005 * This bargain-priced, full-color guide is the ideal resource for new digital SLR photographers * Offers well-organized coverage of camera facts and features as well as specific techniques for photographing people, sports, nature, and other genres * Covers image-editing techniques using Photoshop CS2, including levels, curves, Unsharp Mask, and color calibration
丰子恺曾把自己的创作时代划分四个时期："一是描写古诗句的时代；二是描写儿童的时代；三是描写社会的时代；四是描写自然的时代。”本漫画作品集揉和了他各个时代的作品，以“初心”为主题，精选漫画64幅，旨在通过这些或简单有趣好玩或寄予情感投射的漫画来表达作者的一颗赤子之心。他笔下儿童的天真烂漫生动、自然生活丰富而多趣、在社会时代下的现实中也透露出坚实的情感。?
In The Photographers Eye, Michael Freeman showed what a photographer needs to do in the instant before the shutter is released. In the sequel, The Photographers Mind, he explained the way that professional photographers think a picture through before taking it. Both of these international best-sellers featured Michaels own photography: stunning landscapes, revealing portraits, and fascinating street photography. Now, in The Photographers Vision, he examines the work of photographys greats, explaining how to look at a photo and how to learn from looking at it. The featured work includes some of the most distinguished names in photographys history: Nick Knight, Frederick Henry Evans, Frans Lanting, Tim Page, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Paul Outerbridge, Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Elliott Erwitt, Trent Parke, Jeff Wall, Paul Strand, Romano Cagnoni, Horst Faas, James Casebere and many more, making this book visually stunning as well as intellectually authoritative.
Somehow the most compelling street photography remains thekind that allows us to imagine ourselves wandering into the frame.( Wall Street Journal )
《声乐艺术语言学：讲话与歌唱》对汉语语音和语言做了详尽的分析和研究，同时又编写了意大利语、德语、法语和俄语的语音知识，确立了声乐的说唱相似论的观点。这不仅为声乐教师和音乐教师、声乐学生与歌唱演员提供了必需的声乐教材和参考书，而且为歌曲创作、钢琴、舞蹈和器乐等提供术语的帮助。
In the film era, learning to manipulate lighting and exposure settings was basic to a professional photographer's education. But in today's digital world, the camera handles these things for you—that is, unless you manually reclaim control. Now veteran photographer Michael Meadhra reintroduces you to the alchemy of light and exposure, showing you how to use these elements to create breathtaking photographic artistry with your digital camera. Understand the essential nature and color of light and why photography truly is "painting with light"； Learn how lighting and exposure affect specific subjects； Try different aperture and shutter settings and explore their effects； Discover how to set up lighting for various shots and enhance lighting on location； Control motion with shutter speed and use exposure creatively； Recognize the effect of exposure on color and how to light a setting to establish a mood； Create masterful effects with light and shadow. 作者简介：
这是影人、影评家、影迷共同献给香港电影的一份厚礼，既有从上世纪到，电影工业每一年的忠实记录，也有邹文怀、徐克、许鞍华、王晶、王家卫等众多影人的私家记忆，更有名家力荐的百部电影香港电影。
Portraiture has long been the bread-and-butter of photography;every working photographer needs to know how to shoot and lightpeople effectively to flatter, to deceive, to allude and to enhancebut there has never before been such a simple, time-saving (andtimeless) reference as this. Over two hundred lighting setups areshown in action, allowing you to quickly select one that will workfor you. Setting up photographing lighting can be a challenging andtime-consuming experience, and whether youre a professional lookingto bring out the best in your subject, or an amateur experimentingwith your lighting kit, the ability to flick through hundreds ofpictures showing lighting alternatives and the effect they have ondifferent skin-tones and facial structures in invaluable.
In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen’s first monograph,Occupied Territory, an exploration of space as simulatedexperience—an ersatz reality, idealized and standardized. Now,Aperture is pleased to release a newly expanded and updated reissueof this classic monograph, making Cohen’s pioneering work availableto a contemporary audience and situating her appropriately withinthe lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other widelycelebrated Topographic photographers. In the twenty years of workcontained in the book, Cohen turns her view camera towardclassrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waitingrooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs overaesthetics. What decorations the inhabitants might have added tothese rooms to make them more inviting—mostly phony attempts atwarmth or individualism—only serve to amplify their artifice anduniformity. In cool, functional offices, futuristic receptionareas, lifeless party rooms, escapist motel rooms, and hauntingkilling chamber
An elegiac collection of sixty Polaroid photographs by thelate Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky. "Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and wantedto stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots. The melancholy ofseeing things for the last time is the highly mysterious and poeticessence that these images leave with us. It is as though Andreiwanted to transmit his own enjoyment quickly to others. And theyfeel like a fond farewell." —Tonino Guerra, from theIntroduction This beautifully produced book comprises sixty Polaroid photographsof Andrei Tarkovsky's friends and family, taken between 1979 and1984 in his native Russia and in Italy, where he spent time inpolitical exile.The size of the Polaroids is exactly as presentedin the book, including the frame. The book may therefore be viewedas a facsimile edition. 60 color illustrations.
The Hasselblad Award is the most important international photography prize in the world today, and since 1980 award winners have included some of the greatest names the medium has known. The award is granted to "a photographer recognized for major achievement"; this may be an individual who has made a pioneering achievement in photography, who has had a decisive impact on one or more younger generations of photographers, or one who has implemented one or more internationally significant photographic projects. The 2007 Hasselblad Award winner is Nan Goldin, easily one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct aesthetics of snapshot photography, she has documented her own life and that of her friends and others on the margins of society for more than 30 years, offering frank depictions of drug abuse, cross-dressing and alternative sexualities. Her intimate photographs depict urban lives in New York and Europe in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, a period massively determined by HIV and
