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Touching Photographs
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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 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.
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1.1
Henri-Alexandre-Georges
Regnault,
Salome
,
1870.
The
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art,
New
York.
Gift
of
George
F.
Baker,
1916.
©
The
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
/
Art
Resource,
NY.
Used
with
permission.
the
side
of
my
face.”
12
Returned
“subordination”
by
the
gaze
can
also
be
de-
picted
as
a
decidedly
nonfeminist
sexual
challenge,
as
in
Picasso’s
Demoiselles
d’Avignon
,
or
earlier,
in
Regnault’s
Salome
.
13
Michael
Fried
has
famously
drawn
attention
to
the
issue
through
his
interpretation
of
“absorption,”
the
refusal
to
acknowledge
the
presence
of
a
beholder,
as
a
source
of
independence
and
agency.
14
Yet
the
concept
of
the
gaze
had
positive
ramifications
as
well.
By
placing
the
work
of
art
in
the
same
psychological
space
with
the
beholder,
the
gaze
1.2
Egon
Schiele,
Portrait
of
Edward
Kosmach
,
1910,
Inv.
4702.
Österreichische
Galerie
Belvedere,
Vienna.
Used
with
permission
of
Belvedere,
Vienna.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Tactile Looking
- 1. “It Is Not Going to Be Easy to Look into Their Eyes” - Privilege of Perception in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 2. Roland Barthes’s “Mistaken” Identification
- 3. “From One Dark Shore to the Other” - The Epiphany of the Image in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and W. G. Sebald
- 4. Putting Down Photographic Roots in Harlem - James VanDerZee
- 5. Looking through Their Eyes - Photographic Empowerment
- 6. Five Stories of 9/11
- Epilogue: Bad Pictures
- Notes
- Index