Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Photographic Storytelling

Photographic Storytelling

This program examines how photographers work with images to communicate stories and ideas and how viewers interpret those images. Message manipulation deriving from point of view, context, editing, superimposing, cropping, recoloring, and captioning are discussed. In addition, selective perception—seeing pictures through the filters of values and prejudices—is studied. Commentary is provided by Doug Nickel, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Joel Slayton, of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San José State University; Shanto Iyengar, director of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford University; and others. (27 minutes)

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Item#: BVL30808
Copyright date: ©2001
VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-0285-0
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5389-6

Part of the Series : The Language of Photography


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