Touching Photographs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touching Photographs write by Margaret Olin. This book was released on 2012-05-21. Touching Photographs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Richard Renaldi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Richard Renaldi write by . This book was released on 2017-10-05. Richard Renaldi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
A Kind of Touching Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Kind of Touching Beauty write by Jean-Paul Sartre. This book was released on 2018. A Kind of Touching Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Everyone is free here. . . . The cities are open. They are open to the world and to the future. That is what gives them all an air of adventure; and . . . a kind of touching beauty." So wrote the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre on a 1945 trip to the United States during which he crossed the country and dove deep into the soul of the American city. In this new volume, Sartre's reflections on the distinctly American quality of cities in the United States are accompanied by Pedro Meyer's photographs of American cities, offering similarly sharp insights, but through a different historical lens: that of the late eighties and early nineties. Together, the photographs and essays articulate the enduring essence of American urban existence--its relationship with time, with labor and humanity, and with the open spaces emblematic of America.
Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow
Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow write by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Touching Images of Delight and Sorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Camera Lucida - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Camera Lucida write by Roland Barthes. This book was released on 1981. Camera Lucida available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
