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This is the only text to offer substantial coverage of issues specific to all forms of visual communication. It helps students analyze visual messages using a technique similar to the one used to evaluate words. It offers physiological and theoretical background on visual perception, then moves to discussion of various media (including typography, graphic design, informational graphics, photography, television, video, and interactive media) and the very visible role they play in our lives.
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Explores the meaning of elements of visual communication, with sections on scientific and medical perspectives of the eye and light, theoretical approaches to visual perception, and ethical issues related to persuasive images and stereotyping. Chapters in a fourth section analyze examples from specific media from personal, historical, technical, cultural, and critical perspectives. Includes some 250 b&w and color photos and illustrations. The author is affiliated with California State University-Fullerton. New to this second edition is material on the Internet and the Web. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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