The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
PLAYWRIGHT AND POET
The links below are based on the third edition of Paul Martin Lester's book, Visual Communication: Images with Messages, now in its fifth edition.
sense, select, and perceive
light | eye, retina, and the brain
visual cues: color, form, depth, and movement | visual theories
visual persuasion | media stereotypes
visual analysis perspectives
typography | graphic design | informational graphics | cartoons
photography | motion pictures | television and video | computers | world wide web
the more you know; the more you see
return to the top Chapter 1: To sense. To select. To perceive.
John Ruskin
CNN World Trade Center News Site
Aldous Huxley's Life and Works
return to the top Chapter 2: Light
Clarence John Laughlin
Michelson's Speed of Light Experiment
return to the top Chapter 3: The Eye, the Retina, and the Brain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
return to the top Chapter 4: What the Brain Sees: Color, Form, Depth, and Movement
Suzanne Langer
Biography of Torsten N. Wiesel
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Chapter 5: The Sensual and Perceptual Theories of Visual Communication
Aristotle
Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Psychology
Julian Hochberg and Constructivism
Biography of Ferdinand de Saussure
Biography of Charles Sanders Peirce
return to the top Chapter 6: Visual Persuasion in Advertising, Public Relations, and Journalism
Bill Moyers
The Institute for Propaganda Analysis
Society of Professional Journalists
Miami Herald on Eliān Gonzālez
return to the top Chapter 7: Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media
Walter Lippmann
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)
National Center on Disability and Journalism
Native American Culture and Stereotypes
Text for Media Stereotype Slide Show
return to the top Section 4 Introduction: The Media Through Which We See
David Lodge
A Personal Perspective Example
A Historical Perspective Example
A Technical Perspective Example
An Ethical Perspective Example
return to the top Chapter 8: Typography
Jonathan Hoefler
Oral and Scribal Culture History
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Chapter 9: Graphic Design
Saul Bass
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Sacred Places: Lascaux, France
Cybertown: Virtual Reality Community
return to the top Chapter 10: Informational Graphics
Edward Tufte
The Geographer's Craft Project
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Chapter 11: Cartoons
Richard Nixon
"Doonesbury" Electronic Town Hall
"The New Batman and Superman Adventures"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
return to the top Chapter 12: Photography
George Bernard Shaw
Migrant Mother Talks about the Great Depression
The Digital Daguerreian Archive
Henry Fox Talbot Eadweard Muybridge
Photography from a Technical Perspective Photojournalism Ethics Columns Faking Images in Photojournalism return to the top Chapter 13: Motion Pictures The Mercury Theater on the Air: "War of the Worlds" (1938) The Great Train Robbery (1903) Search the Internet Movie Database return to the top
Chapter 14: Television and Video Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots Federal Communications Commission (FCC) NOAA Satellite Transmission Schedules National Cable and Telecommunications Association
return to the top Chapter 15: Computers Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
"Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty" return to the top
Chapter 16: World Wide Web The History of the World Wide Web The Electronic Frontier Foundation return to the top Chapter 17: The More You Know, The More You See Joe Rosenthal's Flag Raising Picture
Movies and Film on Yahoo!
Meg Greenfield
Arthur C. Clarke
Bill Atkinson Photographs
T. S. Eliot