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Emotions


 
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Contents

Types of emotion
1Emotions
2Emotions: Alienation
3Emotions: Fear and shock
4Emotions: Frustration
5Emotions: Fun and laughter
6Emotions: Joy
7Emotions: Loss
8Emotions: Love and lust
9Emotions: Kissing
10Emotions: Maternal
11Emotions: Shame and humiliation
Case studies
12Robert Demachy: Struggle
13Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
14Robert Doisneau: Un regard oblique - variants
15Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler
16A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938)
17The Holocaust in progress
18Robert Capa: D-Day, Normandy (6 June 1944)
19David Moore: Migrant Woman (1966)
20Kevin Bubriski: Pilgrimage: Looking At Ground Zero (2001)
Research on emotions
21Dr Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions (1876)
22Oscar Gustave Rejlander: The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (London, 1872).

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