Shadow · Poetry
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Summary
Blending his years of photographic experience and his own photographs, and using the shooting methods of documentary photography to pursue the aesthetic ideals of art photography, the author explains in accessible terms the meaning of poetic photography, its poetic beauty, its subjects, its characteristics, its creation, its highest realm, and its twenty-four modes, helping readers enhance their perceptual understanding of the art of photography and their longing for photography as a way of life.
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Photography enthusiasts who enjoy travel records and daily shooting and want more meaning in their photos
- Readers interested in photographic aesthetics and poetic expression who want to sharpen their aesthetic perception
- Ordinary people willing to read creative notes beyond shooting and look for inspiration
- Supplementary readers for university photography or general aesthetic education courses
Not a good fit for
- Purely technical readers needing camera operation, composition parameters and post-processing techniques urgently
- Professional learners expecting a systematic photography textbook or a strict course structure
- Readers impatient with essayistic writing who prefer condensed how-to lists
Reading tips
- Read the chapters on subjects that interest you first, then review your recent photos and reshoot one with the book's perspectives in mind
- After each outing, pick one photo, write a sentence or two on the "poetry" it seeks to express, then find echoes in the book
- Treat the "twenty-four modes" as slow reading—one mode at a time, annotated against your own work
- Read alongside the author's photographs to observe how the words land in concrete images
About the publisher
Peking University Press is a comprehensive university press whose publishing areas cover classical literature, popular science, social culture, world history, Western philosophy, and culture. Its catalogue contains 6,031 titles, with representative books including A Dream of Red Mansions, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (15th Edition) (with Einstein's classic papers on unified field theory and other topics), Elements, Conics, The Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Jin, The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume I), The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume II), and The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Representative authors include Cao Xueqin, Zhou Ruchang, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Apollonius, Tian Yuqing, Schelling, and Xian Gang. The press has developed distinctive strengths in classical Chinese literature and in the translation of Western philosophical classics, while also covering scientific classics and social and cultural studies. As public information is limited, this description is based only on the books in the catalogue and offers no further extrapolation.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 一、诗意摄影缘起
- 二、诗意摄影的题材
- 三、诗意摄影的特征
- 四、诗意摄影的创作
- 五、诗意摄影的至境
- 六、诗意摄影的二十四品
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About the author
Wu Qiang (1910–1990), originally named Wang Datong, was a native of Lianshui, Jiangsu, and a Chinese contemporary military writer. He took part in progressive literary activities in his early years, joined the League of Left-Wing Writers in 1933, and enlisted in the New Fourth Army in 1938. He personally experienced the battles of Laiwu, Menglianggu, and Huaihai, which provided rich material for his writing. His novel Red Sun, published in 1957 and set against the backdrop of the War of Liberation, created many vivid military figures and has had a profound influence; it is his representative work. He also wrote Fortress, The Horse Keeper, and Roaring Smoke-Reed Harbor, among others. Drawing largely on his own combat experience, his writing is plain and vigorous, with attention to characterization and the realistic depiction of wartime scenes, earning him a place in modern Chinese military literature.
