The Genius of Photography 摄影演义后传- 11 YW4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. YW4中国英语学习网
But while Atget cautiously explored the borderline between one kind of reality and another, a photographer with his studio on the same street in Montparnasse was already pushing deep into the territory of the unreal. For Man Ray, the camera was not a machine for making documents, but an instrument for exploring dreams, desires and the medium’s unconscious mind.YW4中国英语学习网
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“He was such a, a natural maverick in the photographic medium that he almost effortlessly discovered all these ways to be a photographer that no one had thought of before, and they were so perfectly in tune with the moment of Dadaism and surrealism. All these things like making photographs in the dark room just by sprinkling, scattering interesting objects on photographic paper, and then just switching the light on very briefly to allow the image, these objects to imprint themselves on the paper, and then just developing it out, no camera involved. He discovers this solarization process inadvertently in the late 1920s, and he makes people look as though their faces are made of aluminum, they become sort of as, sort of sleek and metallic as those mascots on the front of rather swish, fast cars. They become these super people, also slightly inhuman, slightly robotic.”YW4中国英语学习网
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Man Ray got in on the ground floor of the surrealist enterprise, thanks to his friendship with the artist Marcel Duchamp, and an early encounter with one of his most seminal works.YW4中国英语学习网
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“Duchamp had left dusts to gather on sheet of glass, on which he’d drawn various lines in lead, and this was a stage, one of very many stages in the production of what became Duchamp’s famous work, his magnum opus---The Large Glass. Man Ray had been asked to make some photographs of paintings. So Duchamp said ‘well, why don’t you practice on this, this sheet of glass?’ Man Ray was using quite slow film on a large plate camera, very small aperture. And they open the shutter, go for lunch, come back, close the shutter. And Man Ray processes the film that night, he says the negative was perfect.”YW4中国英语学习网
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Dust Breeding, delights photography’s infinite capacity for ambiguity, unmocks its obligations as a sober recorder of reality.YW4中国英语学习网
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maverick: If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are YW4中国英语学习网
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as other people.YW4中国英语学习网
He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office.YW4中国英语学习网
in tune: Going well together; in agreement; matching; agreeable.YW4中国英语学习网
Often used with "with". YW4中国英语学习网
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Dadaism: a movement in European art and literature in the early 20th century, in which artists and writers aimed to shock people by ignoring accepted ideas and producing strange, unexpected images. YW4中国英语学习网
solarization: a reversal of gradation in a photographic image obtained by intense or continued exposureYW4中国英语学习网
[摄]负感作用, 反感作用YW4中国英语学习网
inadvertently: not deliberately, and without realizing what you are doing:YW4中国英语学习网
He was a bluff and simple country gentleman who had inadvertently fallen among politiciansYW4中国英语学习网
mascot: A mascot is an animal, toy, or symbol which is associated with a particular organization or event, and which is thought to bring good luck.YW4中国英语学习网
Our school had a mascot known as Freddy Bird.YW4中国英语学习网
got in on the ground floor: To be one of the first members or employees to participate in the growth of a firm, educational institution, etc.YW4中国英语学习网
Elliott got in on the ground floor and made a fortune at the company.YW4中国英语学习网
seminal: Seminal is used to describe things such as books, works, events, and experiences that have a great influence in a particular field. (FORMAL)YW4中国英语学习网
The reforms have been a seminal event in the history of the NHS.YW4中国英语学习网
magnum opus: A magnum opus is the greatest or most important work produced by aYW4中国英语学习网
writer, artist, musician, or academic.YW4中国英语学习网
Karl Marx's magnum opus" The Capital" includes abundant ideas of human capital.YW4中国英语学习网
aperture: In photography, the aperture of a camera is the size of the hole through which light passes to reach the film.YW4中国英语学习网
Use a small aperture and position the camera carefully. YW4中国英语学习网
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