Photography and touch - relation between body senses and
photographic image
By Agata Lulkowska
Agata Lulkowska states that "our bodies are
equipped with several highly specialized tools which help us perceive the
environment and communicate." in life the sense of sight has traditionally been
considered the privileged sense as we use this sight the most. But we also hear, taste, smell, and we feel with
our skin receptors. Many emotional reactions are felt directly in our bodies: ‘butterflies
in our stomach’, ‘weak knees’ etc. Luklowska suggests "Each sense is ‘extended’ by the form of
expression related to it" for example visual art.It is usually quite challenging to translate
one into another, for example smell into taste, or sense of touch into music.
Touching photographs
What is it about photographs that makes them interesting from the
‘tactile’ point of view?
Lulkowska states that ‘Touch puts people in contact with photographs; but as photographs
pass from hand to hand they establish and maintain relationships between people
- or try to" Even the word ‘photograph’, evokes both
vision ad touch.
Lulkowska,A. (2012). Photography and touch . relation between body senses and photographic image.
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