Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

David duChemin
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Within the Frame is a book about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. A personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, author David duChemin (of pixelatedimage.com) shows you both the how and the why of finding, chasing, and expressing your vision with a camera to your eye. Vision leads to passion, and passion is a cornerstone of great photography. With it, photographs draw the eye in and create an emotional experience. Without it, a photograph is often not worth—and can’t capture—a viewer’s attention.

Both instructional and inspirational, Within the Frame helps you on your photographic journey to make better images of the places and people you love, whether they are around the world or in your own backyard. duChemin covers how to tell stories, and the technology and tools we have at our disposal in order to tell those narratives. Most importantly, he stresses the crucial theme of vision when it comes to photographing people, places, and cultures—and he helps you cultivate and find your own vision, and then fit it within the frame.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

梵谷傳 (Lust for Life: The Story of Vincent Van Gogh)

伊爾文.史東 (Irving Stone) ; 余光中 譯
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梵谷用畫寫人生，史東以小說還原梵谷破畫而出的生命故事，余光中典雅的譯筆感動半世紀來的藝術心靈。

從告別初戀，告別倫敦開始，到荷蘭奧為結束悲苦狂熱的一生，作者細繪梵谷在宗教，藝術，愛情中熊熊燃燒的靈魂。

身為牧師之子的梵谷，二十歲時在倫敦的古伯畫店當店員，向房東的女兒愛修拉求婚遭拒，自此開始一生坎坷的情路：妓女，表姊，鄉村女孩，他們是梵谷與旅程中的過客，也是他繪畫中的光影。

愛情受挫，傳道之路也因與礦工打成一片被開除。然而宗教的狂熱卻造就他筆下卑微人物的臉譜。

史東藉由梵谷與弟弟西奧往來的三卷書信，考證藝術史，寫出藝術家的心靈吶喊。 並並勾勒出當時印象派與後期印象派的主要畫家：羅特列克、高敢、秀拉、賽尚、盧梭……等。畫家們的聚會熱鬧非凡：盧梭高興地報告收到畫迷小姐來信；塞拉又想到新理論，正把塞尚困在窗前；一會笑聽高敢講的黃色笑話；一會又陪盧梭猜他那女朋友是誰；一會又和羅特列爭論……而梵谷與高敢兩大畫家的故事，更令人動容：高敢個性外傾，自負而專橫，常挖苦梵谷。梵谷性情內向，不擅言詞，他把高敢當作師兄來請教，卻也堅持自己的信念，據理力爭。

才如江海命如絲，梵谷一生受盡貧困、病痛、屈辱、孤寂，但追求完美藝術的意志從不動搖。他的畫，生前沒人看得起，死後沒人買得起。梵谷一生失意，全靠弟弟西奧對他不離不棄，照顧他資助他，不斷地鼓勵他。

全書可見梵谷對宗教與創作的狂熱，與十八世紀巴黎名畫家的往來的景況，精彩繽紛。梵谷從教會的傳道者變成藝術的傳道者，最後慷慨成仁，做了藝術的殉道者。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

By Wassily Kandinsky
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A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystalizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own ground-breaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art.

(Excerpt from books.google.com)



藝術的故事 (The Story of Art)

宮布利希 (E.H. Gombrich)) 著
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《藝術的故事》出版以來，以三十種語言發行五百多萬冊，是討論藝術的著作中最知名也最暢銷的一本。四十五年來，其地位依舊無可取代，成為世界藝術史的最佳入門書，涵蓋的範圍，始自史前的洞穴繪畫以至當代的實驗藝術。

全世界的讀者，不論年齡與背景都會發現宮布利希教授是一位真正的大師，他結合了知識、智慧與特殊的天份，將讀者直接帶入他所描繪的藝術世界之中。《藝術的故事》之備受推崇，在於其直接、簡潔的語言與明確的敘述。宮布利希教授清晰地闡釋了藝術潮流與藝術概念，他讓我們看到藝術史是在傳統中不斷重組與變化的過程，每一件作品都與過去相關，又涉及未來，這一個生生不息的傳承仍然連結著當代世界與金字塔。

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Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation

Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn
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Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally achieve the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and experience to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement to achieve the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift.

Solidly based in social science literature with a special focus on recent advances in the study of positive psychology and strengths based leadership, as well as Robert Quinn’s groundbreaking work on organizational effectiveness Lift identifies four mindsets that will enable us to become a consistently positive influence in every aspect of our lives: being purpose centered, internally directed, other focused, and externally open. Separate chapters explore each of these components in depth, analyzing the psychological and social factors that keep people from applying them and what we can do to overcome those obstacles.

Although exercises and tools are included throughout to help you understand and apply the authors’ lift framework as well as compelling stories of personal and professional applications of lift this is not a book about tactics. Instead, the Quinns challenge you to ask, “What can I do to be a positive influence, rather than simply try to wield influence in a positive way?”

(Excerpt from amazon.co.uk)

駕馭時間的藝術 (How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life)

阿倫.萊肯 (Alan Lakein) 著
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在這本簡單而實用的時間管理的指南書中，作者阿倫.萊肯向我們介紹了如何制定自己的近期和長遠目標，如何設置事情的優先級別，如何安排工作日程和如何更好地實現自己意願的技巧。本書甚至還揭示了增強意志，為自己創造安靜的時間，完成令人不愉快的事務和實現自己人生的秘訣……

(摘錄自書中[前言])