The hand - 9788874394319

The hand. The second most individual part of the body after the face, the hand is an integral part of the photographic portrait, in keeping with the representational codes established by painted portraits. The hand is a tool for expressing feelings; as a language, it implores, threatens, pleads, begs, grasps and caresses. It is an instrument for dancers, mime artists, and actors, and plays a key role in art. Not content with showing the hand of the artist at work, photography testifies to the work of the photographer's own hand in colouring, retouching, scratching, and pasting...