Feeling photography
By: Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu, editors
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780822355267; 9780822355410
Subjects: Visual communication in art; Social aspects; Photography; Emotions in art; Artistic Photography; Queer theory; Photographic criticism
Description: With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [357]-384.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Photography between desire and grief : Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith; title: Making sexuality sensible : Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's queer aesthetic forms / Dana Seitler; title: Sepia mutiny : colonial photography and its others in India / Christopher Pinney; title: Skin, flesh, and the affective wrinkles of civil rights photography / Elizabeth Abel; title: Looking pleasant, feeling white : the social politics of the photographic smile / Tanya Sheehan; title: Anticipating citizenship : Chinese head tax photographs / Lily Cho; title: Regarding the pain of the other : photography, famine, and the transference of affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown; title: Accessible feelings, modern looks : Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's affective economy / Marlis Schweitzer; title: Trauma in the archive / Diana Taylor; title: School photos and their afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer; title: Photographing objects as queer archival practice / Ann Cvetkovich; title: Topographies of feeling : on Catherine Opie's American football landscapes / Lisa Cartwright; title: The feeling of photography, the feeling of kinship / David L. Eng.