Now revised and expanded, this essential survey presents the work of eighty of the most important artist-photographers in the world.

The book is divided into seven sections—Portrait, Landscape, Narrative, Object, Fashion, Document, and City—that explore the diverse subjects, styles, and methods of the leading practitioners. Introductions to each section outline the genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes, and how issues like memory, time, objectivity, politics, identity, and the everyday are tied to their approaches. Each photographer’s work is accompanied by Susan Bright’s commentaries and by quotations from the artist.

Leading artists such as Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin and Martin Parr, Gregory Crewdson, Candida Höfer, Gabriel Orozco, and Wolfgang Tillmans are featured alongside emerging international figures, including Viviane Sassen, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Leigh Ladure. The introduction explores the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century, and a new final chapter looks at the changes photography has undergone in recent years. 254 full-color and 21 black-and-white photographs

蘇珊·布賴特(Susan Bright)，國際知名的攝影批評傢，同時也是策展人和作傢，文章散見於各大報刊雜誌。她除瞭舉辦過許多藝術與攝影的國際性會議和研討外，曾擔任倫敦國傢肖像畫廊(National Portrait Gallery)攝影部門助理策展人、攝影師協會策展人，以及倫敦蘇富比藝術學院(Sotheby's Institute of Art)攝影碩士課程(曆史與當代)的執行總監。

本書外，蘇珊·布賴特還齣版瞭本書的姊妹篇《自動對焦:當代攝影中的自拍照》(AUTO FOCUS: THE SELF-PORTRAIT IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY，世界圖書齣版公司，2013)，現定居於紐約。