On this page: • Visual
Communication • Visual Rhetoric
Visual
Communication sites
- Audiovisual
Culture and Interdisciplinary Knowledge (UI access only)
- D.N. Rodowick Program in Film Studies The University of Rochester - This
essay was first published in New Literary History 26 (1995): 11-121. The current
version is enhanced with images and audio commentary.
- Black
Masculinity and Visual Culture (UI access only)
- From Callaloo A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 18.2,
Spring 1995 by Herman Gray, University of California in Santa Cruz.
- The
Black Man on Our Screens and the Empty Space in Representation (UI
access only)
- From Callaloo A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 18.2,
Spring 1995 by Ed Guerrero
- Cyberspace Technology:
Visual Media Management & Cybernetics - Almaden Computer Science Research
- "Within IBM Research's Computer Science department, the Visual Media
Management group develops technologies and applications for content-based
image and video search which enable users to find exactly what they are
looking for." Links to a small but interesting group of projects. Their
multimedia section is less visually oriented but may be of interest.
- Early Visual Media
- This website will be a window to intriguing and mostly forgotten Early
Vintage Visual Media and their history.
The aim is not to bring a complete overview of the history of Visual Media
but rather a personal selection. . . . This web site will mainly focus on Pre-Cinema,
Precursors of Photography, Photography & Early Film
and Conjuring Arts in relation to the previous subjects.
- Fixing Shadows: Still Photography
- "Fixing shadows consists of a set of pages devoted to photographic topics
including the work of individual photographers and photographs of historical
and ethnographic interest and value. We also want to develop pages devoted
to family photography and to miscellaneous "found" photographs
that catch our fancy. "
- Gestalt and Typography
- Mike Cuenca, Assistant Professor of Visual Communications, at the William
Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Kansas
produced this 7 minute Shockwave "movie" on how the principles of
gestalt theory effect our understanding of type, and how to use those principles
for better communication.
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory
- A book by anthropologist Hortense Powermaker first published in 1950 by
Little, Brown & Company, reproduced in its entirety with permission of the
author's estate. Background texts on the Powdermaker
Web page.
- Iconic Communication
- A dozen articles on icons: Introduction, A Computer Based iconic language,
Paper Made Computer Icons, Abstraction and Organization in Signs and Sign
Systems, The use of Metaphors in Iconic Interface Design, Self-Explaining
Icons, The Visual Dimension of Writing, A Computer HINTerface, A visual
language
for representing invisible aspects of natural language, Imaging Textual Machines,
Dynamicons, The Elephant's Memory
- Iconomania studies
in visual culture
- "…a refereed electronic journal that brings together outstanding
scholarly works addressing a range of methodological and cultural interests.
Located in the Department of Art History at the University of California,
Los Angeles (USA), we are graduate students concerned with the role of the
insalubriously defined to include the pictorial, sculptural, spatial, architectural,
corporal, filmic, performative, etc.--in any culture, historical moment,
geographic
location, and milieu."
- Image [&] Narrative
- "Image and Narrative is a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology
in the broadest sense of the term. Beside tackling theoretical issues, it
is a platform for reviews of real world examples."
- In[
]Visible Culture
- A "forum for critical approaches to the production and analysis of
cultural objects. The journal features essays and art projects that address
contemporary issues within visual studies."
- The Joy of Victory, the Agony of Defeat:
Stereotypes in Newspaper Sports Feature Photographs
- By Dianne Hagaman. Published in: Visual Sociology, V. 8 (1993),
pp. 48-66. " With the photographs that illustrate them, they [newspapers]
present a pared-down, highly selective view of the actual world of sports,
stories
about a make-believe
world in which certain aspects of our society are emphasized and made the
basis for the entire description of a world."
- Life vs. Art: The Interpretation of Visual Narratives
- By Larry Gross, published in Studies in Visual Communication, vol.
11, no. 4, Fall, 1985: 2-11.
- The
On-Line Visual Literacy Project
- A basic introduction to visual elements (line, shape, duration, etc.) probably
intended for undergraduate classes at Pomona College, Claremont, California.
- Paul
Martin Lester Writings
- Full text of articles including: "African American Pictorial Coverage
in Four U.S. Newspapers," "Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media,"
"The Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication." " A Picture's
Worth a Thousand Words?" and several others. Also see his Visual
Communication Web Links that correspond with important topics in the second
edition of his book Visual Communication Images with Messages.
- Photographies
- A new journal - "Photographies seeks to construct a new agenda for theorizing photography as a heterogeneous medium that is changing in an ever more dynamic relation to all aspects of contemporary culture."
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- Photogenic
Papers
- Edited by John Richardson Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media
& Culture vol. 6 no 2 (1991)
- Seeing Culture: The
Anthropology of Visual Communication at Temple
- Full texts of articles delivered at Temple University at the 1998 American
Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
- SIGHTS - Visual Anthropology Forum
- "This website has its background in the visual anthropology workshop and
course "Transcultural
Images and Visual Anthropology" organized by The Centre for Cross-Cultural
Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, 3 to 28 August,
1998. The documents contained in this website are working papers from that
workshop, available here for commentary."
- Sol Worth's Homepage
- A brief biography of this University of Iowa graduate and leader in the
"scholarly study of visual communication" opens the page. If you
scroll down you will find links to several of his publications. Note: Sol
Worth died in 1977, this site is maintained by the Department of Anthropology,
Temple University.
- Visual Anthropology (In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology)
- Entry by Jay Ruby. 1996. Visual Anthropology. In Encyclopedia
of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, editors.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, vol. 4:1345-1351.
- The Ur-List: Web Resources
for Visual Anthropology
- Cross-indexed links in 22 categories to almost 400 anthropological sites
from the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
- Visual Anthropology Review (journal)
- "The Visual Anthropology Review is the official publication of the Society
for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association."
Tables of Contents, contribution guidelines, etc
- Visual Communication as a Primary System
- By Sandra Moriarty in Journal of Visual Literacy 14:2 (1994):
11-21 "I wish to emphasize the need for the development of theories of visual
communication that parallel the emphasis historically place on language-based
communication and to present an initial theory of visual communication as
a primary form of communication different from but equally as important as
language-based communication." Other Visual
Communication Articles and Papers by Moriarty.
- Visual
Communication (journal)
- The journal is being launched in 2002 by Sage and will provide an international
and interdisciplinary forum for the growing body of work in visual communication.
It is being edited by Theo van Leeuwen, Cardiff University, UK, Carey Jewitt,
Institute of Education, UK and Ron Scollon, Georgetown University, USA.
- Visual Communication Quarterly
- Visual Communication Quarterly focuses on applied research that has immediate
relevance to visual communicators. Article index, manuscript guidelines --
no articles online.
- Visual Communication Resources
- U of Texas at Austin Librarian, Teresa Ashley, has compiled this set of resources aimed at practitioners of visual communication.
- Visual Communication Division of
the AEJMC
- The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has created
a new site for their Visual Communication Division. It looks like they have
plans for plenty of content but not much was there as of November 3, 1999.
- Visual Sociology,
Documentary Photography, and Photojournalism: It's (Almost) All a Matter of
Context
- Howard S. Becker - Originally published in Visual Sociology 10 (1-2),
5-14. Other papers by Becker can be read from Howie's
homepage
- Web Archive in
Visual Anthropology
- "WAVA is an archive resource for people interested in the anthropology
of visual communication. It features out-of-print and unpublished materials
useful for teaching and research." The home of the Sol Worth and Hortense
Powdermaker pages.
- Banner Art Collective
- "The Banner Art Collective creates, collects,
and distributes net.art and poetry within the limitations and context of
web advertisements."
- City Sites: An Electronic
Book
- The project is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography,
spatial forms and literary and visual cultures of New York City, Chicago and
Los Angeles (1870s to 1930s).
- Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law
- "Here, I have collected some examples of digital tampering in the
media, politics, and the law. To help contend with the implications of this
tampering, we have developed a series of tools for detecting traces of tampering
in digital images." -- Professor Hanny Farid, Dartmouth. See also: papers
on detecting tampering and forgeries
- Don't Believe What You See in the Papers
- The untrutstworthiness of news photography by Jim Lewis. Slate.com, Aug,
2006
- Dona
Schwartz
- Essays and a photo essay, including "Photographs as Facts," "To
Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism," "Camera
Clubs and Fine Art Photography: The Social Construction of an Elite Code,"
"On the Line: Crossing Institutional Boundaries between Photojournalism
and Photographic Art" and "Mothers and Others: An Interactive
Site."
Homepage
- The
Elián Pictures
- An article by By William Saletan in Slate, which examines the rhetoric
of the two images of Elián González -- the federal agents taking
him at gunpoint, and the smiling reunion with his father released by Juan
Miguel's attorney, Greg Craig some hours later. Also from MSNBC, see:
Elian Gonzales,
by All of the Top Cartoonists
- Enculturation 3.2 - Visual Rhetoric
- "The essays, hypertexts, poems, and images collected in this issue of Enculturation
speak to some of the questions that animate critical theory these days: What
is visual rhetoric? Or to be trendier, perhaps, What is the nature of the
visual? Of visuality? We have collected some eclectic but representative
writing, performance, and theory that raise and address such questions and
that we see occupying substantial attention across a broad range of academic
disciplines: rhetoric, literary and cultural studies, art and design, photography,
and creative writing." --David Blakesley and Collin Brooke.
- Eric Margolis
- Full texts of three essays in visual ethnography:"Class Pictures: Representations
of Race, Gender and Ability in a Century of School Photography," "Manufacturing
Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona" and "Surviving
'Survivors': A Review of An Interactive Program on the Holocaust"
- How to Do Things with Pictures
- William J. Mitchell - Chapter 9 of The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth
in the Post-Photographic Era. See also Chapter
3, "Intention
and Artifice".
- International Visual Literacy Association
- Information on membership, conferences, and their publications: Journal
of Visual Literacy, Book of Selected Readings, Symposium Readings and a quarterly
newsletter.
- International Visual Sociology
Association
- Apparently under construction, pages are incomplete, but the site shows
promise.
- Journal of Visual Literacy
- Calls for papers, submission guidelines, table of contents and abstracts.
- On The Lookout,
- or Visual Rhetorics and Rhetorical Visions: Position Papers and A Roundtable
Discussion
- Rhizome: The New Media Art Resource
- "This Web site is an online resource for people who are interested
in new media art, which we define as the intersection of new technologies
and contemporary art."
- Screening
the Past
- "An international, refereed, electronic journal of visual media and
history. Published with the generous support of the La Trobe University Publications
Committee and the School of Arts and Media."
- Visual
Rhetoric Syllabus
- "This page served as the gateway for the class's exploration of visual
rhetoric. It now includes links to course materials, student projects, supplementary
resources, exempla, and other web-based material." --David Blakesley,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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