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Karsh Canadians

作者:Yousuf Karsh

《Karsh Canadians》以字母顺序编排加拿大知名人士的肖像,人物来自公共生活、文学、艺术、科学、娱乐等多个领域。全书将黑白肖像摄影与每幅肖像附带的文字评论结合起来。这样的范围使作品不仅呈现个人形象,也构成一幅关于加拿大文化与公民生活的视觉图景。字母顺序带来清晰的结构,而不同职业与身份的并置,则形成了跨领域的广度,而非单一主题的展示。

尤素福·卡什的贡献,在于把肖像摄影同时处理为视觉诠释与记录。现有介绍强调其精心布光的肖像,而随图文字则让照片不止停留在人物外貌层面,并为每位被摄者提供更广的语境。卡什并非只呈现摄影图像,而是将影像与文字结合起来,把人物置于公共、艺术、思想和文化生活之中。作品既关注个体的气质,也关注这些人物所体现的社会整体。

本书的意义,可以从个人肖像与集体记录的结合中理解。它让读者思考加拿大的重要人物如何被视觉化呈现,也展示了一个国家的文化如何通过来自不同领域的人物肖像逐渐汇聚起来。作品的记录性与艺术性彼此不可分离:布光、姿态和摄影判断共同塑造了这份记录,而人物本身又使它扎根于公共生活。因此,这部作品既可作历史阅读,也可作视觉阅读。

收藏者可能会关注这部作品,是因为它把卡什的肖像艺术组织成一组连续而有整体感的作品,而不是孤立呈现单幅照片。字母顺序便于比较不同职业人物,附带评论则为照片增添了文学性与阐释空间。对于关注肖像艺术、加拿大文化史,或摄影与公共身份之间关系的读者而言,本书提供了持续而集中的研究对象。它的吸引力,正在于卡什的艺术方法与书中多样人生之间形成的长期对话。

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Karsh Canadians by Yousuf Karsh, published by University of Toronto Press in 1978. This is the hardcover reprint issued in the same year, complete with its distinctive red pictorial dust jacket. The substantial volume contains 203 pages and 79 full-page black-and-white portrait plates.

Karsh presents an alphabetical gallery of prominent Canadians drawn from public life, literature, art, science, entertainment and other fields. Each portrait is accompanied by commentary, making the volume both a major collection of Karsh’s carefully lit portrait photography and a visual record of twentieth-century Canadian cultural and civic life. The book measures approximately 30.5 x 24.8 x 2.5 cm and weighs about 1.65 kg.

The seller grades the book and dust jacket Very Good. The jacket has light rubbing and handling wear, including small chips and rubbed or compressed areas at the corners and edges. The photographed interior pages appear clean, with crisp text and black-and-white reproductions; this observation applies to the representative pages shown rather than every page in the volume. Please review all photographs carefully, as they form part of the description.

书籍与版本资料

出版社
University of Toronto Press
出版年份
1978
装帧
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
页数
203
ISBN-10
0802023177
ISBN-13
9780802023179
语言
English
目录价格
C $54.95
库存编号
128143293175

品相说明

Very Good hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing and handling wear with small chips and compression at corners and edges. Representative photographed interior pages appear clean and unmarked. Please review the photos as part of the condition description.

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