You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.
Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.
Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
