Touching Photographs

2012-05-21 History

Author : Margaret Olin
Release : 2012-05-21
Genre : History
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Download or read book Touching Photographs written by Margaret Olin. This book was released on 2012-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 communities, analyzing how photography affects the way people handle cataclysmic events like 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, takes us into Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, Touching Photographs is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.

Richard Renaldi

2017-10-05 Photography, Artistic

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Release : 2017-10-05
Genre : Photography, Artistic
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Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Richard Renaldi written by . This book was released on 2017-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format eight-by-ten-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones. Renaldi creates spontaneous and fleeting relationships between strangers, for the camera, often pushing his subjects beyond their comfort levels. These relationships may only last for the moment the shutter is released, but the resulting photographs are moving and provocative, and raise profound questions about the possibilities for positive human connection in a diverse society. -- Provided by publisher."--Publisher's description.

A Kind of Touching Beauty

2012 Architectural photography

Author : Pedro Meyer
Release : 2012
Genre : Architectural photography
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Download or read book A Kind of Touching Beauty written by Pedro Meyer. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the American cities, capturing their growth and transition through the 1980s and '90s. This title shows the same cities at different times, through different cultural lens. It lets you discover the soul of American cities, so distinct from the spirit of urban Europe.

Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow

2021-01-07 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Release : 2021-01-07
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow written by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents highly emotional newspaper pictures from 1968 - 2020, many of them telling moving stories. All images were decorated with the Pulitzer Prize for "Feature Photography." Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.

Camera Lucida

1981 Philosophy

Author : Roland Barthes
Release : 1981
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 344/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Camera Lucida written by Roland Barthes. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.

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