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V I S U A L
R E S O U R C E S

sample assignments

Analyzing and producing advertisements (pdf)

Composing a poster

Poster analysis and production (pdf)

Visual arguments (pdf)

color

Color in Motion

Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design

Color Overview

Color Matters

A tutorial on color

vocabularies for talking about the visual elements of a composition

Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs

The Online Visual Literacy Project

21st Century Literacies

Thinking Visually

cultural aspects of photographs, paintings...

American Photography: A Century of Images

US News & World Report 70th Anniversary Photography Special

Picture History

NC Teachers' Network: Visual Literacy resources

collections of photographs and other visual objects (some without copyright)

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading Room

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ImageBase

USDA Forest Service Photo & Video Gallery

USDA Agricultural Research Service Image Gallery

CDC Public Health Image Library

Morgue File

WWII Propaganda, Images, Art

college courses

Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age, Pat Sullivan

Visual Rhetoric, David Blakesley

Visual Literacy, Anthony Pennings

Rhetoric and Visual Culture, Cara Finnegan

Visual Rhetoric, Michael Salvo

Visual Rhetoric and Document Design, Jim Dubinsky

journal special issues

Enculturation

reference/other lists of resources or articles & books

Words of Art

Discussion (with terminology) of visual rhetoric, Juan C. Dürsteler

Visual Communication/Visual Rhetoric resources at University of Iowa, Department of Communication

Visual Rhetoric portal, University of Minnesota

Visual Rhetoric and Design blog

bibliographies

Anne's long bibliography (pdf) for visual/interactive research

from Margaret Zulick, Wake Forest

from Rebecca Moore Howard, Syracuse University

EServer TC Library

aclu print ads

There are other visual/interactive resources available at the ACLU website.

death penalty

property forfeiture

lgbt rights

racial profiling

privacy

reproductive rights

terrorism

voting