Touching photographs
By: Margaret Olin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226626468
Subjects: Photographs; Photography in literature; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Photography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "It is not going to be easy to look into their eyes": privilege of perception in Let us now praise famous men; title: Roland Barthes's 'mistaken' identification; title: "From one dark shore to the other" : the epiphany of the image in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and W. G. Sebald; title: Putting down photographic roots in Harlem: James Van Der Zee; title: Looking through their eyes: photographic empowerment; title: Five stories of 9/11; title: Epilogue: Bad pictures.