A Beginner's Guide to Pictures

✍ Scribed by Stuart Oring

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 113
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Beginner's Guide To Pictures takes you into the world of visual communication by showing you how to read pictures. How do you approach a photograph, in order to understand what it might express? What do you think it says and is the photographer really trying to say that--or is something else in the photographer's mind? The various concepts about pictures are thoroughly explained (such as lighting, design, tonality, space, symbolism etc). A section of photographs provides examples and descriptive material to help your understanding. And, the author walks you through the analysis of a picture step-by-step.

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Associations
Memorable Quotations
Some Things That Pictures Can Do
Introduction
The Different Kinds Of Pictures
Procedure For The Analysis Of Photographs
Characteristics Of The Experience
Recommended Reading
Preliminary Statement About The Photograph
Appendix A
Are your feelings about the picture the same as before or
You may be able to obtain insights from sources outside of yourself that
What can you learn from other pictures, made by the same artist, that might
Exercises
Concepts About Light
Concepts About Space
Concepts About Form
Concepts About Tone
Concepts About Value Patterns
Concepts About Objects
Things For What They Are And Things For What Else They Are
Appendix C – Art & Design Motifs
Design Motifs Meanings
Design Motifs Meanings
Color Symbolism
Black
Black/White
Blue
Brown
Gold
Green
Orange
Pink
Red
Silver/Gray
White
Yellow
Lines And The Character Of A Picture
Mood Experienced Design Elements Commonly Used
If Several Design Elements Suggest A Particular
Appendix D
What You Should Know About Pictures
Exercise For The Passive Method
Summary Of Steps To Aid Memory
Exercise #2 – Sustained Contact And Interruption
Summary
Exercise #3 – Turning Off
Summary
On The Value Of Exercises
Exercise #4 – Subject Essence
Sketches
How Much Of A Visual Experience Should Be Sketched
Four Exercises
The Imitation Sketch
The Self Sketch
Essence Sketch
Coreform Sketch
Summary Of The Four Exercises
Active Contact And Review In Reverse
Passive Contact Exercise
Total Analysis
Total Experience And Total Analysis Exercise
Verbal Association Exercise
Multiple Images
Exercise With A Sequence
Effect Of Images On Images Exercise
Effect Of Words On Images Exercise
A Method For Putting Together A Sequence
Building A Sequence From Scratch
Visual Into Movement Exercise