书名：Robert Adams: Beauty in Photography / 罗伯特·亚当斯：摄影之美
定价：150.0
ISBN：9780893813680
作者：ADAMS
版次：1
出版时间：2004-01

内容提要：

书名：Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values / 摄影之美：捍卫传统价值论集
作者：Robert Adams (罗伯特·亚当斯)
出版社：Aperture，1981年初版/1996年第二版（多次重印）
装帧：平装，约108-112页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 14.0*21.0 cm（5.5 x 8.26 英寸）
ISBN：978-0-8938-1368-0

简介

本书收录了罗伯特·亚当斯（Robert Adams）的八篇散文，是摄影批评领域的一部经典之作。作者以一位工作摄影师、艺术家和匠人的安静口吻，对自己的创作实践进行了长时间的思考与审视，质疑并检验了实践中的假设。

亚当斯以其睿智避免了学究式的陈词滥调、教条和套话，提出了一系列关于摄影在艺术中及生活中的位置的问题：摄影如何成为艺术？对社会有何重要性？我们应依据何种标准来判断照片的成功与失败？ 他的反思细腻而异常冷静，同时带有确信的力量和全身心投入的激情。

很少有视觉艺术家能够清晰阐述自己创造性成就中微妙而强大的源泉，而亚当斯做到了，且具有非凡的优雅和力量。这部最初发表于1981年的文集，为读者提供了对这位杰出摄影师作品的深入了解，也为我们理解与享受摄影这门艺术提供了深刻的启发和指引。

The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration. These essays address us in the quiet voice of a working photographer, an artist and craftsman who has thought long and seriously about his endeavor, who has tested and questioned his own assumptions in the light of actual practice. Written over a ten-year period, and originally published in 1981, this timeless collection of writings now includes a new preface by the author. Robert Adams possesses the wit to avoid cant, dogma, and platitudes of the scholar that can deaden our responses to the lively business of art. His eight essays pose a host of questions about photography's place in the arts--and in our lives: How is photography art? Of what importance is it to society? By what standards are we to judge the success or failure of a photograph? His reflections are delicate, unusually calm, but they also carry the force of sure conviction, the passion of absolute dedication. Few visual artists are capable of articulating the subtle, potent wellsprings of their own creative achievement. Adams does so with extraordinary grace and power. This book offers not only an insight into the work of a distinguished photographer, but also an illuminating challenge and corrective to the usual pieties and pettiness of photographic circumstance of today.