Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photography" meant a one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of clicking the shutter. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before shooting on film has now become obsolete in the face of digital photography. Luckily for us, legendary photographer Helmut Newton saved his test Polaroids, allowing a privileged and rare chance to see the tests from a selection of his greatest shoots over a period of decades, including many from the TASCHEN titles SUMO, A Gun for Hire, and Work. Put together by his widow, June Newton, his collection captures the magic of Helmut Newton photo shoots as only Polaroids can.

Thomas Struth (born 1954) began his career making cityscapes, jungles and portraits. In the 1980s, after a meeting with psychoanalyst Inge Hartmann, he branched into portraiture. This book presents a selection of Struth's solo and group portraits from the 1990s.

Before she was a world-renowned singer/songwriter and bestowed with the title "The Godmother of Punk," Patti Smith was a struggling poet posing for the lens of photographer Judy Linn. In intimate portraits of an artist as a young woman, Linn captures Smith at her most vulnerable, as a raw performer on the verge of becoming an iconic artist. Linn's photographs offer a fascinating document of Smith's maturation into one of the most influential women of her generation while also spotlighting her close relationships with other artists including Robert Mapplethorpe and Sam Shepard. The book captures a moment lost in time, when a poet experimenting with music crossed paths with a young artist experimenting with photography. A must-have for anyone interested in the evolution of an artist, this collection showcases the collaboration bewteen Smith and Linn and rewrites what it means to be a woman and an artist.

美国当代著名摄影师格里高利·克鲁德逊 Gregory Crewdson作品《黄昏》 Twilight (1998-2002)，是他最知名的系列作品，得名于美国哥伦比亚电影公司从1959年至1965年发行的电视系列剧《迷离魔界》（The Twilight Zone），这个剧集汇集了种种都市传奇和诡异故事，以神秘主义和黑暗暴力风格表达人生寓言。"Twilight"这个词汇是指日落后天色变黑之前的短暂黄昏，也被称为"魔鬼时间"。此时有天光和路灯等人造光源的混杂照明和反射，使普通场景笼罩上特殊氛围。 Twilight拍摄于马萨诸塞州，Crewdson带领一个专业制作群体，进入一个小镇和居民们一起工作，电影式的场景，通过道具，置景，化装等手段实景拍摄。作品中处在日落时刻里的场面，由自然光和人工光源混合照明，背景中反复出现的家庭杂物，如肥皂盒、牛奶瓶、清洁剂容器等等，暗示出人们心理上的焦虑、恐惧和渴望。 近几年，Gregory Crewdson 几乎同时在世界上最有名的画廊举办个展，伦敦的 White Cube，洛杉矶的 Gagosian Gallery，纽约的Lurhing Agustine，德国古根海姆博物馆，美国马萨诸塞州的威廉斯学院美术馆在2006年曾策划了一个爱德华霍普（美国绘画大师）和克鲁德逊的双人展，将克鲁德逊的作品做了一个追根溯源的探究。20年的时间里，Gregory Crewdson创作了六组系列摄影，这些摄影作品受到了戴安娜·阿波滋（Diane Airbus），爱德华霍普（Edward Hopper），斯皮尔博格，大卫林奇等一些大导演的影响。在使用搭建模型和利用戏剧原则来进行创作的摄影流派中，Gregory Crewdson堪称先驱。艺术家通过混合传统的纪实摄影方式和虚构元素，使得摄影不再是被动观察和剪辑，而是主动地创造世界。本书包括40幅作品和部分工作照。

Since the advent of photography, certain cities have become inextricably intertwined with their depiction by great photographers: Eugene Atget in turn-of-the-century Paris; Berenice Abbott in 1930s New York; Ed Ruscha in late-60s Los Angeles. While Daido Moriyama documented the disaffection and dissipation of postwar Tokyo, Takashi Homma picks up the baton with a contemporary portrait of the modern-day metropolis that is both cinematic and complex. For over a decade, Homma has turned the neutral gaze of his lens toward Tokyo's suburban environs and urban center. As in all of his work, Homma's vision of Tokyo navigates a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality, detachment and lusciousness, presenting a sleek, contemporary vision of a postmodern megalopolis populated by a new generation of video game aficionados and fashionistas. While Homma has published extensively inside his native Japan, this is his first volume published for an international audience. "Takashi Homma: Tokyo" compiles selections from each of the artist's six previously-published titles on the city, including "Tokyo Suburbia," his seminal work now considered a contemporary classic.

"How did you make this photograph?" This is the question that Ansel Adams was asked repeatedly during his lifetime. In this book, Adams shares the circumstances surrounding the making of many of his most celebrated photographs. Each of the 40 photographs are superbly reproduced in duotone, is accompanied by an entertaining and informative narrative that combines reminscence of people and places with precise recall of technical details and aesthetics considerations. The specific technical information on camera and lens, filters, exposure times, developing, and printing provided in each example illustrates his approach and methods and will assist amateur and professional photographers alike in learning the craft. Through this case study approach, Adams' philosophy of craft and creativity unfolds: his credos of visualisation, image management, and the Zone System are demonstrated: and the colour story of a lifetime devoted to photography is revealed.

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.

《Subway Love》是荒木經惟在1963到1972年的十年間，上班時不斷的在地鐵拍攝其他乘客的照片的成果，在拍攝期間還曾經因此被帶到警察局去訊問。過了40年的時光，當時在地下鐵通勤的乘客超過兩百張的作品，至今依然鮮活地呈現著。 本書內附日英對照的荒木經惟訪問錄，讓您可以更進一步認識大師的創作理念。

During the 1960s and '70s in Japan, the photobook—through a combination of excellence in design, printing, and materials—overtook prints as a popular mode of artistic dissemination. This process has expanded to an extent where any discussion of Japanese photography now has to include the book work. Today, the most famous works—such as Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey and Eikoh Hosoe's Man and Woman—continue to inspire artists internationally. Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s presents forty definitive publications from the era, piecing together an otherwise invisible history that has played out in tandem with photography as a medium. Included are some of the most influential works along with forgotten gems, placed within a larger historical and sociological context. Each book, beautifully reproduced through numerous spreads, is accompanied by an in-depth explanatory text and sidebars highlighting important editors, designers, themes, and periodicals. Lavishly produced, this unique publication is an ode to the distinct character and influence of the Japanese photobook. Select titles by: Nobuyoshi Araki, Ken Domon, Masahisa Fukase, Hiroshi Hamaya, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Keizo Kitajima, Kineo Kuwabara, Yoichi Midorikawa, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Ikko Narahara, Yasuzo Nojima, Kishin Shinoyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Hiromi Tsuchida, and others.

about the book Including 121 artists from 40 different countries as selected by 79 curators, critics and established artists, Vitamin Ph includes the following artists: 

Armando Andrade Tudela, Alexander Apostól, Miriam Bäckström, Yto Barrada, Erica Baum, Valérie Belin, Walead Beshty, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Frank Breuer, Olaf Breuning, Gerard Byrne, Elinor Carucci, David Claerbout, Anne Collier, Phil Collins, Kelli Connell, Eduardo Consuegra, Sharon Core, Rochelle Costi, Gregory Crewdson, Nancy Davenport, Tim Davis, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Hans Eijkelboom, JH Engström, Lalla Essaydi, Roe Ethridge, Peter Fraser, Yang Fudong, Anna Gaskell, Simryn Gill, Anthony Goicolea, Geert Goiris, David Goldblatt, Katy Grannan, AES+F group, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Mauricio Guillen, Jitka Hanzlová, Anne Hardy, Rachel Harrison, Jonathan Hernández, Sarah Hobbs, Emily Jacir, Valérie Jouve, Yeondoo Jung, Rinko Kawauchi, Annette Kelm, Idris Khan, Joachim Koester, Panos Kokkinias, Luisa Lambri, An-My Lê, Tim Lee, Nikki S Lee, Zoe Leonard, Armin Linke, Sharon Lockhart, Vera Lutter, Florian Maier-Aichen, Malerie Marder, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Gareth McConnell, Scott McFarland, Ryan McGinley, Trish Morrissey, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi, Oliver Musovik, Kelly Nipper, Nils Norman, Catherine Opie, Esteban Pastorino Díaz, Paul Pfeiffer, Sarah Pickering, Peter Piller, Rosângela Rennó, Mauro Restiffe, Robin Rhode, Sophy Rickett, Noguchi Rika, Andrea Robbins/Max Becher, Ricarda Roggan, Anri Sala, Dean Sameshima, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Markus Schinwald, Gregor Schneider, Collier Schorr, Josef Schulz, Paul Shambroom, Ahlam Shibli, Yinka Shonibare, Efrat Shvily, Santiago Sierra, Paul Sietsema, Alex Slade, Sean Snyder, Alec Soth, Heidi Specker, Hannah Starkey, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Clare Strand, Darren Sylvester, Guy Tillim, Nazif Topçuoglu, Danny Treacy, Fatimah Tuggar, Céline van Balen, Annika von Hausswolff, Bettina von Zwehl, Deborah Willis, Sharon Ya`ari, Catherine Yass, Shizuka Yokomizo, Amir Zaki, Liu Zheng, Tobias Zielony

With and introduction by TJ Demos and individual texts about the artists by Rodrigo Alonso, Thomas Boutoux, Isolde Brielmaier, Stuart Comer, Dina Deitsch, TJ Demos, Frits Giertsberg, Mark Godfrey, Catherine Grant, Alison Green, Katerina Gregos, Rachel Haidu, Jens Hoffmann, Michael Ned Holte, Ana Finel Honigman, Vincent Honoré, Vasif Kortun, Sarah Lewis, Roxana Marcoci, Dominic Molon, Shamim M Momin, Jessica Morgan, Jonathan Napack, Sally O`Reilly, Tetsuya Ozaki, Bethany Pappalardo, Alona Pardo, John Reed, Catsou Roberts, Jose Roca, Barry Schwabsky, Brian Sholis, Luke Skrebowski, Kerstin Stremmel, Margaret Sundell, Gloria Sutton, Nato Thompson, Sarah Thornton, Grant Watson, Axel Wieder.

In this remarkable publication, the celebrated photographic artist Wolfgang Tillmans draws together a comprehensive overview of his work to date, incorporating over 2,400 images. Tillmans's breadth of vision is captivating: whether as still life, portrait, landscape or abstract composition it challenges and expands the viewer's visual and temporal awareness.