Reading Photos, Reading Photos, Reading LifeReading Life

Visual Literacy and Visual Literacy and To Kill a To Kill a MockingbirdMockingbird

What is Visual Literacy?What is Visual Literacy?

• Visual Literacy is ability to read non-print Visual Literacy is ability to read non-print visual texts. For example, photographs, visual texts. For example, photographs, paintings, sculptures and movies.paintings, sculptures and movies.

• When we look at pictures we infer ideas When we look at pictures we infer ideas about what is happening and what is not about what is happening and what is not happening in the non-print visual text.happening in the non-print visual text.

• These ideas come from the history we These ideas come from the history we know and our own personal thoughts and know and our own personal thoughts and ideas.ideas.

What is the aim of Visual What is the aim of Visual Literacy?Literacy?

• The purpose of being able to read a The purpose of being able to read a non-print text is to help you make non-print text is to help you make connections between the things you connections between the things you already know to the things you are already know to the things you are going to be learning. going to be learning.

• Being able to make these connections Being able to make these connections helps you to truly learn and know helps you to truly learn and know things.things.

Time to Learn…Time to Learn…Time to Practice…Time to Practice…

Reading a Photo…Reading a Photo…

To Read a Photo, you must do the following…To Read a Photo, you must do the following…• Observe the photo for 2 minutes for overall Observe the photo for 2 minutes for overall

impression and then individual items.impression and then individual items.• Make a list of what you see and don’t see: Make a list of what you see and don’t see:

People, Objects & ActivitiesPeople, Objects & Activities• Make a list of inferences from what you seeMake a list of inferences from what you see• Make a list of questions the photo raises in Make a list of questions the photo raises in

you mindyou mind• Where could you go to find the answers to Where could you go to find the answers to

your questions?your questions?http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/photo.html

What do you see here?What do you see here?

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gottlieb:@field(SUBJ+@1(Jazz+dance--1930-1950+))

What do you see here?What do you see here?

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc84.jpg

What do you see here?What do you see here?

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

What do you see here?What do you see here?

http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/17/world.in.focus/family.lg.jpg

What do you see here?What do you see here?

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/www/gallery/departmental-images/american_studies/Slave.jpg

What did you learn?What did you learn?

• What did you learn from these photos?What did you learn from these photos?• How can you connect these images to How can you connect these images to

To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird??• How are viewing photographs How are viewing photographs

different than reading a book?different than reading a book?• Do you get the same information as a Do you get the same information as a

textbook?textbook?

ReferenceReferenceDancers in a jazz club, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948].Dancers in a jazz club, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948].

Gottlieb, William P. 1917- photographer.Gottlieb, William P. 1917- photographer.

NOTESNOTESGottlieb Collection Assignment No. 098

Original negative not served. Original negative not served.

Purchase William P. Gottlieb Purchase William P. Gottlieb

SUBJECTSSUBJECTSDancers--1930-1950.Jazz dance--1930-1950.Portrait photographs--1930-1950.Group portraits--1930-1950.Film negatives--1930-1950.

MEDIUMMEDIUM1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

CALL NUMBERCALL NUMBERLC-GLB13- 0176 <P&P>LC-GLB13- 0176 <P&P>

REPRODUCTION NUMBERREPRODUCTION NUMBERLC-GLB13-0176 DLC (b&w film neg.)LC-GLB13-0176 DLC (b&w film neg.)

PART OFPART OFWilliam P. Gottlieb Collection William P. Gottlieb Collection

REPOSITORYREPOSITORYnegative Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA negative Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA reference print Library of Congress Music Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA reference print Library of Congress Music Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL IDDIGITAL IDnegative) gottlieb 01761 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.01761 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01761 ) gottlieb 01761 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.01761 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01761 (published print (The Golden Age of (published print (The Golden Age of JazzJazz, Pomegranate Artbooks)) gottlieb 01763 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.01763 , Pomegranate Artbooks)) gottlieb 01763 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.01763 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01763 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01763

ReferenceReference

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc84.jpgvc84.jpg

ReferenceReference

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

ReferenceReference

http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/17/world.in.focus/http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/17/world.in.focus/family.lg.jpgfamily.lg.jpg

ReferenceReference

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/www/gallery/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/www/gallery/

departmental-images/american_studies/Slave.jpgdepartmental-images/american_studies/Slave.jpg