Visual Literacy: Examination of Images without Text
MEDIA ESSAY- VISUAL LITERACY
‘The ability to read images is just as important as the ability to read text’
Visual literacy is to examine an image without text to find its true meaning, compared to literacy, which commonly indicates the explanation of a written or printed text. Visual literacy is usually an advantage for those who are visual learners- who learn primarily through written words, sight and images. The ability to read images is as just as important as the ability to read text for quite a few reasons.
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” - Ansel Adams
All the way through a lifetime, living life without being able to read text would be more effective than being able to read images. Without being able to read text at an older age, there would be no imagination. But without being able to read text at a younger age, reading images is introduced. Children find it quite east to read images and in picture books, it kick starts their imagination so that when they are older they may visualize images without a picture book. So having the ability to read images and also read text is quite handy from a young age. “A picture is worth one thousand words”- Napoleon Bonaparte
An image can show emotion, a story or describing an object for example a desk, you don’t just see the desk you Imagine books and pencils on top. Another example would be a girl with no one around her looking sad, could express isolation and discomfort. So if you’re reading text, you could also imagine what goes on, but reading images would be an advantage many people would take.
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” - Karl Lagerfeld
Information is received in many different ways: through text, electronic devices, images and social networking sites. But information received through images is truthfully momentous. Say if it was
‘The ability to read images is just as important as the ability to read text’
Visual literacy is to examine an image without text to find its true meaning, compared to literacy, which commonly indicates the explanation of a written or printed text. Visual literacy is usually an advantage for those who are visual learners- who learn primarily through written words, sight and images. The ability to read images is as just as important as the ability to read text for quite a few reasons.
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” - Ansel Adams
All the way through a lifetime, living life without being able to read text would be more effective than being able to read images. Without being able to read text at an older age, there would be no imagination. But without being able to read text at a younger age, reading images is introduced. Children find it quite east to read images and in picture books, it kick starts their imagination so that when they are older they may visualize images without a picture book. So having the ability to read images and also read text is quite handy from a young age. “A picture is worth one thousand words”- Napoleon Bonaparte
An image can show emotion, a story or describing an object for example a desk, you don’t just see the desk you Imagine books and pencils on top. Another example would be a girl with no one around her looking sad, could express isolation and discomfort. So if you’re reading text, you could also imagine what goes on, but reading images would be an advantage many people would take.
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” - Karl Lagerfeld
Information is received in many different ways: through text, electronic devices, images and social networking sites. But information received through images is truthfully momentous. Say if it was