"Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing.

Moreover, Barrett's analytical categorization of photographs into ideal types including the aesthetically evaluative and the interpretive (to cite two examples) has provided readers with a highly original and useful way to think about how photographs are made to function in the world." Louis Kaplan, Southern Illinois University

特里·巴雷特（Terry Barrett），美国艺术批评家，北德克萨斯大学艺术教育系教授，俄亥俄州立大学名誉教授。曾荣获美国国家艺术教育协会“杰出教学奖”，著作包括《创作艺术：形式与意义》《为什么这是艺术？当代艺术的审美与批判》《阐释艺术：反思、惊诧与反应》《批评艺术：理解当代》等。巴雷特曾举办了三十多次个展和群展，发表大量摄影作品和批评文章。目前，巴雷特仍任职于美国国家艺术教育协会、德克萨斯艺术教育协会、艺术理论与教育基金会（FATE）以及院校艺术协会等机构。

何积惠，1950年生，从事翻译工作逾三十载。除在报刊杂志上发表译作外，迄今出版著作有《世界摄影艺术图典》（合著），译著有《数码摄影手册》《创意摄影的奥秘》《招摇：另类人体宣言》《从影后到王妃：格蕾丝·凯利的情与爱》及《1985年以来的当代艺术理论》（合译）等。