Reading Images : The Grammar of Visual Design Paperback / softback
by Gunther (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) Kress, Theo van (University of Southern Denmark) Leeuwen
Paperback / softback
Description
This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design.
Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated second edition include:new material on moving images and on coloura discussion of how images and their uses have changed through timewebsites and web-based imagesideas on the future of visual communication. Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images and makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 68 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, color; 77 Halftones, black and white; 10
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/03/2006
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- ISBN:9780415319157
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 68 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, color; 77 Halftones, black and white; 10
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/03/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415319157
