一本文标题引申自日本摄影理论家饭泽耕太郎《写真的思考》里的一句话:“摄影家是拿着相机的魔法师。”其实,这本书里不断在重复一个定义性的问题:摄影是什么?或者说,摄影能做些什么?我后来发现,这个问题所涉及到的思考的根源在我们对艺术的认识上。艺术是什么?电影导演安德烈·塔可夫斯基(Andrei Tarkovsky)说“艺术是一种祈祷”。任何不 The title of this article extends from the Japanese photo theorist Yasuhiro Ozawa, “Thinking in Pictures,” in a sentence: “The photographer is the magician who holds the camera.” In fact, this book is constantly repeating a defining question : What is photography? Or what photography can do? I later discovered that the root cause of the thinking involved in this question is in our understanding of the arts. What is art? The film director Andrei Tarkovsky says “Art is a prayer.” Any no