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Touching strangers

Author
Renaldi, Richard, photographer.
Title
Touching strangers / Richard Renaldi ; introduction by Teju Cole.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Aperture, [2014] ©2014
Description
119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Other contributors
Cole, Teju, writer of introduction.
Summary
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.
Subject headings
Renaldi, Richard. Strangers--Pictorial works. Photography, Artistic. Portrait photography.
Kinsey subjects
Photography.

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
779 R45 t69 2014
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute