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Touching Photographs
Margaret Olin
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Description for Touching Photographs
Paperback. Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. This book explores photography's ability to 'touch' us through a series of essays that shed light on photography's role in the world. Num Pages: 328 pages, 37 colour plates, 84 halftones. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 882.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226626468
SKU
V9780226626468
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Ref
99-1
About Margaret Olin
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.
Reviews for Touching Photographs
"Touching Photographs is a series of memorably profound excursions into the defining techniques of modernity. A wonderful, beautifully written book." (Christopher Pinney, University College, London)"