Photographs offer another layer of experience—a reading experience as
rich as any written prose—if we take the time to observe and process the
photograph’s visual language. In this Learning Guide you will read examples and do assignments to train your eye to look at images.
Posts in this series
How to Read a Photograph
Look at This! Boys Diving
Look at This! A Portrait of the Artist
Look at This! Where There's Smoke
Look at This! Leisure by the Waterside
Look at This! Pictures of the Great Depression by Berenice Abbott and Dorothea Lange
Look at This! A Special Portrait From Voodoo Macbeth
A New American Gothic
A Boy Among Men
On the Station Platform
The Trainyards Welder
Look at This Photo of The Bronx in 1970
MS Mae Jemison in Spacelab-Japan: a Work Portrait
Look at This Portrait of Frederick Douglass and His Grandson From 1894
