Social History Studies, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) Biannual Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring and Summer 2021, 33-62 Doi: 10.30465/shc.2021.34985.2199 The Haptic Perception and Social Photographs Analysis Mohamad Hasanpur * Abstract The sense of touch is the key to understanding the having been the world because without it the human is more like an observer in relation to the world. Touch integrates our experiences of the world and of ourselves. Even visual perceptions are fused and integrated into the haptic continuum of the self. In relation to the visual arts, and especially the photographs, the haptic perception that takes into account various perceptual aspects will be more precise than the tactile one that is restricted to physical touch: the way we touch feeling on the skin and inside the body is the haptic perception. Visual effects can convey perceptual values through the subject and its representation style. So we conclude that in the analysis of social photographs, tactile perception, and non-visual senses often play an important role not only in stimulating past memories, but in activating and shaping them, and by promoting interest-based physical activity, the tactile sense transmits to and from the photo frame. In the process of interpretation family photographs, and in general, social photographs that are relevant to the lives of people, there are two distinct tactile functions: in the metaphorical touch of the photograph, the act of understanding is possible through the visual values of the frame and their function due to the power of touch. Physical touch, the action of the touch takes place physically, in which both the tactile perception of the photograph, determines * Assistant Professor of Handicrafts, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Sistan and Baluchistan University, Zahedan, Iran, mim.hasanpur@gmail.com Date received: 24/05/2021, Date of acceptance: 02/10/2021 Copyright © 2010, IHCS (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies). This is an Open Access article. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.