1st Edition

New Ways of Seeing The Democratic Language of Photography

By Grant Scott Copyright 2019
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Those born since the digital revolution, seem to have the hardest time re-imagining the role of photography in the world today. Thinking of photography as a visual language is the approach this book adopts to addresses this challenge.Considering photography in this way develops the metaphor of 'learning a language' when attempting to explain what photography can be, and what it can give a student... Read more
Introduction The Narrative Eye1. How Did We Get Here2. Speaking in a Digital Environment3. The Basic Vocabulary of a Visual Language4. #Photosketching5. Building the Narrative6. Developing Fluency7. Speaking OutIndex

Biography

Grant Scott is Senior Lecturer/Subject Co-Ordinator Photography, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has worked as a photographer, writer and an art director on magazines for over thirty years; his work is held in the permanent collections of several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Tate (London) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).