Touching Photographs

Name: Touching Photographs
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ISBN: 9780226626468

ISBN-10: 0226626466

ISBN-13: 9780226626468

Edition: 2012

Authors: Margaret Olin

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Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to ;touch ; us through a series of essays that shed new light on photography's role in the world. Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.72" wide x 0.99" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Margaret Olin is a senior research scholar in the Divinity School, with joint appointments in the Departments of History of Art and Religious Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Tactile Looking



"It Is Not Going to Be Easy to Look into Their Eyes": Privilege of Perception in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men



Roland Barthes's "Mistaken" Identification



"From One Dark Shore to the Other": The Epiphany of the Image in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and W. G. Sebald



Putting Down Photographic Roots in Harlem: James VanDerZee



Looking through Their Eyes: Photographic Empowerment



Five Stories of 9/11


Epilogue: Bad Pictures


Notes


Index