Reading Photographs is a clear and inspiring introduction to theories of representation and visual analysis and how they can be applied to photography. Introduc

Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barna

This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed in images designed for knowledge building i

"This anthology investigates books that juxtapose photographs and written language (photo-texts), considering a variety of examples from America, Britain, Canad

Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. By looking at the formal elements and structures of desi