Touching Photographs

by Margaret Olin

Author	: Margaret Olin
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 288
Release	: 2012-05-21
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0226626466

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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.

Richard Renaldi

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Publisher	: Aperture Foundation
Total Pages	: 119
Release	: 2017-10-05
Genre	: Photography, Artistic
ISBN	: 9781597114301

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"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

by Pedro Meyer

Author	: Pedro Meyer
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2012
Genre	: Architectural photography
ISBN	: 9780857420077

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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 Surfaces

by Anca Cristofovici

Author	: Anca Cristofovici
Publisher	: Rodopi
Total Pages	: 213
Release	: 2009
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 9042025131

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Who isn't seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the past three decades, this book is prompted by such questions and turns them into a meditation on how aesthetics mediates our relation to time. The photographic approach of the corporeal is at the center of the book. Within a phenomenological framework, Cristofovici brings into focus the physical and the psychic body to read aging as a process of change and becoming over time. Her understanding of aging sees beyond difference into larger patterns of perceptions that we share. Offering valuable insights into aging as a process of subject construction, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of visual culture, photography, art history, age studies, and theories of knowledge. This cross-disciplinary study that puts theory to the test of life's and art's paradoxes in an evocative style will also appeal to a wider readership interested in how photography and aging illuminate each other.

Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow

by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer

Author	: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher	: LIT Verlag
Total Pages	: 222
Release	: 2021-01-07
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 3643964552

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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

by Roland Barthes

Author	: Roland Barthes
Publisher	: Macmillan
Total Pages	: 134
Release	: 1981
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 0374521344

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"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.

Photography, Temporality, and Modernity

by Kris Belden-Adams

Author	: Kris Belden-Adams
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 344
Release	: 2019-01-14
Genre	: Art
ISBN	: 1351004247

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This book examines the photography’s unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium’s ability to capture and sometimes "defy" time, while also traveling as objects across time-and-space nexuses. The book features studies of understudied, widespread, practices: studio portraiture, motion studies, panoramas, racing photo finishes, composite college class pictures, planetary photography, digital montages, and extended-exposure images. A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time, and the anxiety its passage provokes.

Touch Screen Tablets Touching Children's Lives

by Joanne Tarasuik

Author	: Joanne Tarasuik
Publisher	: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages	: 273
Release	: 2018-02-28
Genre	:
ISBN	: 2889454177

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Touch screen tablets have greatly expanded the technology accessible to preschoolers, toddlers and even infants, given that they do not require the fine motor skills required for using traditional computers. Many parents and educators wish to make evidence-based decisions regarding young children’s technology use, yet technological advancements continue to occur faster than researchers can keep up with. Accordingly, despite touch screen tablets entering society more than 5 years ago, we are in the infancy of research concerning interactive media and children. The topic has gained traction in the past couple of years. For example theoretical papers have discussed how interactive media activities differ from physical toys and passive media (Christakis, 2014), and how educational apps development should utilise the four “pillars” of learning (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2015). Yet there has been little experimental research published on young children and touch screen use.

Touching Surfaces

by Anca Cristofovici

Author	: Anca Cristofovici
Publisher	: BRILL
Total Pages	: 229
Release	: 2009-01-01
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 9401206694

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Who isn’t seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the past three decades, this book is prompted by such questions and turns them into a meditation on how aesthetics mediates our relation to time. The photographic approach of the corporeal is at the center of the book. Within a phenomenological framework, Cristofovici brings into focus the physical and the psychic body to read aging as a process of change and becoming over time. Her understanding of aging sees beyond difference into larger patterns of perceptions that we share. Offering valuable insights into aging as a process of subject construction, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of visual culture, photography, art history, age studies, and theories of knowledge. This cross-disciplinary study that puts theory to the test of life’s and art’s paradoxes in an evocative style will also appeal to a wider readership interested in how photography and aging illuminate each other.