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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