Visual Learning
Photography is a language. Like any other form of communication, it has its own grammar, syntax, principles, and evolving history. Photography shares much with other forms of expression that revolve around the visual language. When I look at someone’s images for the first time, I can tell immediately if they are conversant and educated in the visual language.
With the digital revolution, millions of people take photographs frequently without any visual training or knowledge of photography. There are multiple ways to look at this. On the one hand, the unselfconscious charm of snapshots and images that grow spontaneously and immediately from within a life seduce the viewer into an intimate glimpse of the photographer’s affections ...
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