The Genius of Photography 摄影演义后传- 10 k5J中国英语学习网
In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography's true genius. k5J中国英语学习网
Atget is the photographers` photographer. Getting to the bottom of one of his pictures takes time and a bit of juggling. k5J中国英语学习网
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“I decided once, to sit with it, and really look at it, because I wanted to know why he made this picture. And as I looked at it, I did that thing that I often do with Atget, which is to turn it upside down. And when I turned it upside down, I suddenly saw this white strip. It’s probably a chimney flue that had been torn down, and the chimney flue was joined with the building backing it and they`ve now cemented it up and it`s fresh. And on this street, this uninteresting, ordinary street, Atget found that comment of this white zipper, zip, running right up the middle of the building, and he makes his picture based on this little piece of flimsy marking. And he’s betting that the interested looker will really see that thing and go traveling through the picture, past the tree around the, the lamppost across the street and take his eye right up to that building and say ”that’s delicious”. “k5J中国英语学习网
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“As he works during his long career, he, he notices these things going on: dusk, and early morning light, and mist and sunlight crashing in from unexpected places, but it`s only towards the end that he gives himself up to these oxygens or these un-documentary possibilities of photography. “k5J中国英语学习网
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“So he does become much more of a poet then. You know, he’s constantly photographing things that are not sort of ordinary documentary photography, there is a huge tree right in front of the nominal subject. Like Notre Dame Cathedral, it`s really a huge tree and beats off Notre Dame Cathedral behind. And the tree is very black and the cathedral is very, sort of pale and grey. So you could read it as the power of nature against this great efflorescence of architecture. They still are documents but they are documents of a different range of reality.”k5J中国英语学习网
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Vocabulary:k5J中国英语学习网
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get to the bottom of: To find out the real cause of.k5J中国英语学习网
Superintendent talked with several students to get to the bottomk5J中国英语学习网
of the trouble.k5J中国英语学习网
turn sth. upside down: to change something completely. 完全颠倒k5J中国英语学习网
His experience in the war turned his world upside down. k5J中国英语学习网
chimney flue: 烟(囱管)道k5J中国英语学习网
tear down: To take all down in pieces; destroy k5J中国英语学习网
The workmen tore down the old house and built a new house in its place.k5J中国英语学习网
zipper: A zipper is a device used to open and close parts of clothes and bags. k5J中国英语学习网
lamp post: A lamp-post is a tall metal or concrete pole that is fixed beside a road and has a light at the top. 灯柱，照明柱k5J中国英语学习网
Notre Dame Cathedral: a famous cathedral (=a large important church) in central Paris,k5J中国英语学习网
which is a beautiful Gothic building from the 12th century, andk5J中国英语学习网
a popular place for tourists to visit. 巴黎圣母院k5J中国英语学习网
beat off: to succeed in defeating someone who is attacking, opposing, or competing with youk5J中国英语学习网
McConnell beat off a challenge for his Senate seat.k5J中国英语学习网
efflorescence: action or time of bursting into flower 开花; 花期k5J中国英语学习网
a period of great efflorescence in the arts 艺术的全盛时期k5J中国英语学习网
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在Eva Cassidy的音乐里面，其实很难去界定她的音乐类型，因为她的音乐当中揉合著爵士、蓝调、民歌，乃至於福音与灵歌的氛围。这样的音乐佐上Eva Cassidy天生宽阔的音域以及清透丝滑的音质，最後再加上Cassidy独特的断句方式，让每首歌都添加无比的想像空间。