Photo provocations : thinking in, with, and about photographs / Brian C. O'Connor, Roger B. Wyatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Brian Clark.

Contributor:

Wyatt, Roger B., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography.

Visual literacy.

Physical Description:

x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Summary:

O'Connor and Wyatt use more than 250 color photographs and illustrations to help us break out of the linear mode and see the world differently. Theirs is a wild ride through the language of images that may leave the reader/viewer a bit dizzy but excited and definitely better informed about how to communicate visually. Faculty in information studies and education or anyone involved in image creation, organization, management, interpretation, and visual design will especially enjoy developing their visual language skills with the help of O'Connor and Wyatt.

Contents:

1 If a Picture Were Worth One Thousand Words 1

2 Why Are We Writing a Book about Photographs? 5

3 Argus: Eyes across the Years 15

4 Blow Up Redux 25

5 Butterfly Effect 31

6 Butterfly Redux 39

7 Dust Bowl in Maine 45

8 Exquisite Empiricism 49

9 Exquisite Empiricism Redux 67

10 Robocams and AACR 73

11 Digital Mindscapes 77

12 Interface 83

13 Off the Rez 89

14 The Predicament of Categories 93

15 Reflections on a Photojournal Notebook 101

16 Native Elements 105

17 Native Elements Redux 111

18 Ripples of Meaning 117

19 Pointing at Cattle and Dogs: Reflections on an Eyemodule 123

20 What's Right with This Picture? 129

21 Up the Representation of a Creek with Only a Representation of a Paddle 133

22 Sun Sculpture: Flailing about in Photospace 141

23 Pictures of Boys with Guns 147

24 With Apologies to Magritte 151

25 Face of the Bull 157

26 Epilogue on Provocation 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-169).

ISBN:

0810846462

OCLC:

53953450