Visual.Literacy

Tony Sweet's Visual Literacy: Photography Workshop
$39.99
I went to see Tony at a viewing af his work and really enjoyed his talk. So I searched out his dvds to purchase and found this one to be one for me. I watched it upon arrival over several evenings and was enlightened about many things I have heard talked about. The first time out photographing since watching it, I applied a technique he showed and was amazed how successful my photographs came out. I highly recommend this dvd if you can't attend a workshop.

Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Methods
$51.95
This book provides thorough introduction on the way we process and read images in any form around us. It is a very useful reading for anyone related to any kind of art practice. Highly recommended.

Primer of Visual Literacy
$23.00
This book was required for class, so I wasn't expecting it to be incredibly enjoyable; I wasn't wrong. The information is great, and the author obviously knows what she is talking about. The delivery of said information, however, is very dry and dated, and almost gets too academic while you're trying to study art. Know that you need this information, it just might be easier to digest from another source.

Visual Literacy: Writing about Art
$29.43
Visual Literacy acquaints students with the critical issues that shape the discipline of art and teaches them to write about art from a variety of scholarly and rhetorical perspectives.