[How Effective Visual Language in Photography]

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Abstract

Students of visual communication design need the ability to analyze, compose, and interpret images that speak in a visual language. Teaching visual literacy is one way that enables students to be aware and critical about images that surround their lives every day. Visual literacy gives students the ability to actively unravel and deconstruct codes given by an image, rather than become a passive receiver of it. As a method for teaching, exercises or challenges in creating or composing images can be a good complement in developing this ability, rather than mere analyzing. Digital photography is an excellent medium for this, since it is quick at capturing and producing many images that we want, and very lenient on mistakes or technical errors so students are less afraid to take risks and more productive. Photographs, taken by the students, with short titles, constituted the only data. Analysis of the photographs without any text proved to be difficult. Written statements in addition to the titles complementing the photographs would have helped in creating the context for understanding the photographs and thereby more clearly communicating the intent of the photographers.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION6

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW8

The Realism of Photographs8

Theoretical Underpinnings9

180 Degrees Theory10

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY15

CHAPTER 4: RESULTS17

Performing being stressed17

Teaching and discovering to use visual methods25

CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS29

CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION31

REFERENCES32

Chapter 1: Introduction

What is photography by “itself'' is the photography has a “genius'' of its own? And what is essential future of the photography, that magnifier the various distributions that impose either its empirical, or rhetorical, or aesthetical. Maybe photography reproduces a different classification or it is unclassifiable, but has occurred ones, that graph mechanically repeats that can never repeated in reality. That freezing moments will stay unchangeable and eternal, it carries present moment, and will become past moment of reality in the future. Was it made In order to designate that particular moment that carry certain meaning, and reflect the environment? Why photograph, why this object this moment rather than some other? Or its just technical that contained certain photographical rules, obliged to focus at very close range? Maybe its requires a secondary knowledge of reflection, and photography belongs to that class of laminated objects whose to leaves cannot be separated? Perhaps, photography there to be a sign, where must be a mark, needy of principal of marking, which don't taken, which turn, as a fire into a charcoal, as an ice into a water and as a seed into a flower, where is a life that consists of little touches ...