Teach Kids to ‘Read’ the Images They See
Frank Baker,
Middleweb,
Mar 17, 2021
I like this post for a number of reasons. For one thing, I think it's useful to think of 'reading' a photograph. Partially, this is the idea of developing visual literacy, and partially, this is the idea that anything we experience, even those things we seem to directly experience, are subject to interpretation, which is in many ways a process of reading. I also like the way the topic is presented such that students can't rely on depending on the source or authority of the image; they have to consider the image on its own, without context. This is important partially because it commends a sceptical attitude, and partially because many sources, even respected journalists, are not above manipulating photos, either by staging them before the shot, or editing it after.
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