{"product_id":"touching-photographs-margaret-olin-9780226626468","title":"Touching Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotography 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.\u003c\/p\u003eOlin 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 \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, \u003ci\u003eTouching Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Olin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226626466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226626468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012","brand":"Margaret Olin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072167833855,"sku":"9780226626468","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f02242d8-0002-4520-8394-7dbf36fed57a.jpg?v=1685440357","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/touching-photographs-margaret-olin-9780226626468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}