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Teaching Visual Literacy through Digital Photography and Imaging Exercises

Pranayama, Aristarchus (2006) Teaching Visual Literacy through Digital Photography and Imaging Exercises. [UNSPECIFIED]

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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 everyday. 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. Through strategic exercises of digital photography and imaging, students can learn visual literacy in a very dynamic way; not only reading images, but also creating them and reinterpreting them through class presentations and discussions.

          Item Type: UNSPECIFIED
          Uncontrolled Keywords: Teaching method, visual literacy, digital photography, digital imaging, visual communication design, analyzing, interpreting
          Subjects: N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
          N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
          Divisions: Faculty of Art and Design > Visual Communication Design Department
          Depositing User: Admin
          Date Deposited: 18 Jun 2022 22:01
          Last Modified: 14 Sep 2022 09:28
          URI: https://repository.petra.ac.id/id/eprint/19630

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