a variety of approaches to how we see and interpret images. 

How understanding of images is affected by culture and situation. How professionals learn to use and interpret images. How professionals interpret visual materials for others.

Rose, Gillian. 2007. Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials, 2nd ed.  London: SAGE Publications.  ch. 3:  “The good eye”: looking at pictures using compositional interpretation. Dropbox. Also useful for making images.

Barthes, R. (2003). Rhetoric of the image. In L. Wells (Ed.), The photography reader. London: Routledge.  (Not my scan) A classic. Here’s one of many postings of the image he writes about.

Goodwin, C., 2001. Practices of Seeing Visual Analysis: An Ethnomethodological Approach. in: van Leeuwen, T., and Jewitt, C., (Eds.), Handbook of Visual Analysis. SAGE, London. We’re most concerned with the discussion starting on p.11 (164).  As you read, think about practices in your own domain.