Reading Images

Product Description

This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic & comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from childrens drawings to textbook illustrations photo-journalism to fine art as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture & toys the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated second edition include: new material on moving images & on colour a discussion of how images & their uses have changed through time websites & web-based images ideas on the future of visual communication. Reading Images focuses on the structures or grammar of visual design
- colour perspective framing & composition
- provides the reader with an invaluable tool-kit for reading images & makes it a must for anyone interested in communication the media & the arts.