中文简介：

这是摄影师韦恩·汤姆（Wayne Thom）的首部专著，他对晚期现代建筑的记录构成了一个与众不同的建筑/视觉档案。

作为20世纪后期现代主义的重要入门读物，这部专门介绍韦恩·汤姆的专著记录了他的摄影实践以及他工作的建筑和城市环境。韦恩·汤姆是20世纪60年代和70年代西海岸蓬勃发展的城市主义的创新记录者，他拍摄了由William Pereira & Associates、Edward Durell Stone、SOM、Gio Ponti、John Portman、I. M. Pei和A. Quincy Jones等开拓性建筑公司的重要项目，帮助建立了那个时代酷炫的建筑魅力。

韦恩·汤姆在香港长大，于1960年代中期移居加州，在那里接受摄影技术培训，擅长利用自然光进行室内和室外的创作。他很快开始与后来成为他的客户和赞助人的人物合作，其中包括两位重要人物：建筑师威廉·佩雷拉（William Pereira）和南加州大学建筑学院院长A·昆西·琼斯（A. Quincy Jones）。

作者艾米丽·比尔（Emily Bills）批判性地评价了汤姆的职业生涯，她证明了他的摄影作品与大众想象中的晚期现代主义密不可分，这是一个从1960年代末到1980年代的建筑创作时期。本书赞颂了这位重要建筑摄影师，也是对这一建筑表达变革时期作品的独特记录。

英文简介：

The first monograph of photographer Wayne Thom, whose documentation of Late Modern architecture constitutes an architectural/visual archive unlike any other.

A key primer to late-twentieth century Modernism, this monograph devoted to Wayne Thom chronicles his photographic practice and the architectural and urban environment in which he worked. An innovative chronicler of the booming West Coast urbanism of the 1960s and 70s, Thom's photographs of key projects by path-breaking architecture firms such as William Pereira & Associates, Edward Durell Stone, SOM, Gio Ponti, John Portman, I. M. Pei, and A. Quincy Jones helped establish the idea of cool architectural glamour of the era.

Raised in Hong Kong, Thom moved to California in the mid-1960s and trained in the technical craftsmanship of photography, adept at harnessing natural light for both interior and exterior compositions. He soon began working with the figures who would become his clients and benefactors, most importantly William Pereira and A. Quincy Jones, a prolific architect and Dean of the School of Architecture at USC.

As Emily Bills critically assess Thom's career, she demonstrates that his photography became inseparable from Late Modernism in the popular imagination, a period of architectural production that ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern is a celebration of this key architectural photographer and a unique chronicle of the works of this transformative period of architectural expression.