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。

I have forgotten the language of my fathers and have not yet learned the language of my children. I live in a foreign country, I am an immigrant, I live in a little yellow house by the woods in Oslo with my family. I was born and brought up in a tough industrial town on the south bank of the Tyne, Jarrow, Britain. I call it Home. My Mother and Father are getting on and moving out, cutting me adrift with no way back. Combined with an incoming Tory government that seems determined to wreck what they missed in the 80s and I have been forced to think about who I am and where I belong. I am photographing my hometown and the people I know there, to try and establish how much of where I am from determines who I am. Why I cant let go. What makes Jarrow so special? It has a history going back to Roman times. The Venerable Bede was a Jarra Lad and the Jarrow Hunger March is world famous. None of which makes it special to me. For me its something intangible. Jarrow is a place that exists more in my imagination than in

Jér?me Sessini (b.1968) began his career with the GAMMA agency following the Kosovo war in 1999. Since then he has covered many events: the second intifada, the conflict in Iraq, the Haitian crisis of 2004, the capture of Mogadishu and the Lebanon War. In 2008, he started his Mexican project, So far from God, too close to America, a dive into the drug cartels war in Mexico. This project has already been awarded twice with the F-Award and a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography. It is superbly presented here in scores of beautifully reproduced images

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。

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstratekey points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and inparticular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited,translated, and with an Introduction by Jay Leyda; Index;photographs and diagrams.

Retinal Shift is the catalogue for Mikhael Subotzkys 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition, which will tour every major museum in South Africa. Retinal Shift investigates the practice and mechanics of looking in relation to the history of Grahamstown, the history of photographic devices, and Subotzkys own history as an artist. The works draw on archival portraits from the last century, found surveillance footage, as well as Subotzkys own photographs from various series that he re-contextualizes. The opening work in the book is a self-portrait that Subotzky made with the assistance of an optometrist. High-resolution images of his left and right retinas sit side by side. Says Subotzky: I was fascinated by this encounter. At the moment that my retinas, parts of my essential organs of seeing, were photographed, I was blinded by the apparatus that made the images. Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town and is currently based in Johannesburg. Subotzky adopts the directness of the social document

The newest title in this affordable photography serieshighlights the work of Paolo Roversi.Born in Ravenna, Italy, in1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeenon a family holiday. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knappled him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he firstencountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when hebecame an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him thephotographer’s craft.Now based in Paris for more than thirty years,Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film tocapture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability, and romanticism.Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated color, hecollaborates regularly with the world’s top supermodels anddesigners, and has photographed for many leading fashion magazinesand international ad campaigns. 64 duotone illustrations

This DVD contains a long film about the work of Magnumphotographer Martin Parr, who'd been followed by the director formore than a month. It includes an important selection of interviewsabout Parr's work, with extra content about a unique perspective onleisure and habits of the American people. Contains a longinterview with Parr and other great personalities of theinternational world of photography.

An elegant and original photo book illustrating once again the excellence of products made in Italy. After Italian Touch, produced with Tods in 2009 and distributed with great success all over the world, the autumn of 2012 will see the publication of a new volume: a gallery of images of Italian men of different ages and origins with a shared passion for elegance and the highest quality. Some thirty men, including a writer, jeweller, a painter, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, a journalist and an aristocrat, are photographed in their chosen settings: the home, the office, the garden or the city. Their lifestyles, born out of a natural flair for combining elegance and quality, are encapsulated in images and short phrases. Beauty becomes a matter of seeking and choosing, the expression of ideas and traditions, creativity and respect, a language capable of conveying the culture that represents the true excellence of products made in Italy.

Celebrities rule the modern world, and close behind them arethe paparazzi, fuelling the medias endless fascination with therich and famous, while they themselves keep a low profile, fadingchameleon-like into the background. Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostainare two respected photo-reporters, based in Paris but ready to goanywhere in the world for a scoop. They began working together inthe late 1970s as contributors to the magazine "Paris Match", andby 1986 they had set up a formal partnership, founding the agencySphinx. Over the decades, they have honed the instincts required tocatch the moment when a glance, a pose and a setting are mostperfectly matched, capturing movie stars and models, rock stars androyalty. This book presents a selection of their best work from thelast 25 years. Packed with striking black-and-white images thathark back to the golden age of photo-journalism, famous challengesus to recognize, appreciate and celebrate a fresh frame ofreference through which great photography can be judged.

On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the automobile, Daimler presents this comprehensive chronicle of the worlds oldest automotive manufacturer. The fascinating history of the car and its impact on society are here to be discovered in word and text: from Carl Benzs gas engine drive prototype of 1883, to the sleek Mercedes Benz racing cars of the 1930s, and todays progressive designs for the future. Whether luxury sedan, sports car, truck or bus, this book provides an in-depth overview of every make of car produced by Daimler. Beginning with historical portraits of the auto motive pioneers Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, the reader explores the evolution of the Mercedes Benz over time and how it has earned its place in our cultural imagination.

Andreas Gurskys new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gurskys photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailands Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans Arp, but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on the first glance, it is only in time that the rubbish of civilisation becomes recognisable floating on the surface of the river the flotsam of a threatening reality moving upon colourful reflections. Gursky alludes to the ecological problems that jeopardise Bangkok, and which shortly after these images were made, culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated great parts of Thailand. Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, is one of the most important contemporary photographers. He studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen, and at the Kunstakademie Du?sseldorf under

Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance,action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in theworld, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, whichare watched by passionate fans around the globe. Stephen Alter--awriter who grew up in India and has inside access toBollywood--acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand lookinto the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywoodversion of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindimovies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats ofartifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessingceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secretsbehind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a BollywoodLove-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and cultureof a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly differentfrom our own.

Mastering the craft of black-and-white with this unique approach. With every digital image holding the potential for black-and-white conversion, its essential for all photographers to learn the reliable techniques and innovative digital implementations this timeless photographic genre is based upon. Starting with in-depth explanations of how and why black and white works, Michael Freeman goes on to teach the major themes and optimal workflows for creating stunning monochrome images that enhance your subjects and enrich your portfolio. With the engaging collaborative structure of the Photo School series, and Michael Freemans years of experience shooting digital B W, all photographers will find their work rapidly improving. Shared critiques and creative challenges will encourage the reader to see beyond the world of colour and explore the full potential of this effective and classic technique.

This progressive book object combines twovolumes and covers the sweep and depth of Lewis Baltz's influentialoeuvre. Rule Without Exception is a re-issue of Baltz'saward-winning mid-career retrospective book which accompanied atravelling exhibition of the same name in 1991. The book surveysBaltz's work from "The Prototype Works" of 1967 through to "Sitesof Technology" of 1991, showing the range of his images ofindustrialised landscapes and technological sites. Each section ofthe book is accompanied by installation views as well as texts bydistinguished writers, some newly commissioned for this edition.Only Exceptions is a new book chronicling Baltz's work - nowusually site-generated commissioned works - from 1992 to thepresent and is published on the occasion of an exhibition organizedby the Kunstmuseum, Bonn. Only Exceptions includes Baltz's work inCalifornia, Leipzig's "Black Triangle", Reggio Emilia, Groningen,Rome, Venice, and two projects with Jean Nouvel in France andItaly.

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.

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.