Photo Provocations Thinking In, With, and About Photographs

by O'Connor, Brian C.; Wyatt, Roger B.

• ISBN13: 9780810846463
• ISBN10: 0810846462
• Edition: CD
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2004-06-08
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

O'Connor and Wyatt use more than 250 color photographs and illustrations to help us break out of the linear mode and see the world differently. Theirs is a wild ride through the language of images that may leave the reader/viewer a bit dizzy but excited and definitely better informed about how to communicate visually. Faculty in information studies and education or anyone involved in image creation, organization, management, interpretation, and visual design will especially enjoy developing their visual language skills with the help of O'Connor and Wyatt.

Author Biography

Brian C. O'Connor coordinates the Interdisciplinary Information Science Ph.D. Programs at the University of North Texas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
1 If a Picture Were Worth One Thousand Words	1	(4)
2 Why Are We Writing a Book about Photographs?	5	(10)
3 Argus: Eyes across the Years	15	(10)
4 Blow Up Redux	25	(6)
5 Butterfly Effect	31	(8)
6 Butterfly Redux	39	(6)
7 Dust Bowl in Maine	45	(4)
8 Exquisite Empiricism	49	(18)
9 Exquisite Empiricism Redux	67	(6)
10 Robocams and AACR	73	(4)
11 Digital Mindscapes	77	(6)
12 Interface	83	(6)
13 Off the Rez	89	(4)
14 The Predicament of Categories	93	(8)
15 Reflections on a Photojournal Notebook	101	(4)
16 Native Elements	105	(6)
17 Native Elements Redux	111	(6)
18 Ripples of Meaning	117	(6)
19 Pointing at Cattle and Dogs: Reflections on an Eyemodule	123	(6)
20 What's Right with This Picture?	129	(4)
21 Up the Representation of a Creek with Only a Representation of a Paddle	133	(8)
22 Sun Sculpture: Flailing about in Photospace	141	(6)
23 Pictures of Boys with Guns	147	(4)
24 With Apologies to Magritte	151	(6)
25 Face of the Bull	157	(4)
26 Epilogue on Provocation	161	(2)
Bibliography	163	(8)
About the Authors	171