Visual Communication Journal

This is an advertisement from 1900, when the Brownie debuted. The Brownie Camera was an affordable, personal camera. You would mail in your entire camera to the Eastman Kodak Co. and they would mail you back the photos along with the camera restocked with film. Various versions continued to be sold through the '60s. 

Relative - you perceive something has moved relative to another object's movement

Rhythm - refers to visual, stationary rhythm - in editing and moving objects

Constructivism was an art movement that began in Russia in 1919 - it was art to serve the people. It was "practicality married with beauty" according to this informative video about Constructivism.

Such distances, makes the twenty-first century scenarios, as I testified in the Huléne dump."

FREE PUSSY RIOT: Amnesty International has taken up the cause.

Paul Conrad was a three-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist. He was chief editorial cartoonist at the LA Times from '64-93. During that time, his confrontational editorial cartoons pointed at many presidents and political figures, but he managed to make Nixon's list of enemies because of his many Nixon cartoons such as one where Nixon nails himself to a cross.

Thomas Nast is considered to be the father of American cartoons. As an illustrator for Harper's Weekly, Nast created iconic symbols such as the  Republican Elephant and the jolly, rotund Santa Claus. His political/editorial cartoons helped bring down Boss Tweed.

"Five caricature heads" by Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci is one of the earliest known artists to experiment with caricature. His interest in the grotesque led him to seek out people with deformities as models for his drawings. A caricature is a satirical illustration of a person or thing. Historically, and even now, caricatures are often made of politicians in editorial cartoons. 

from Daguerreotype Boyfriend 

My Daguerrotype Boyfriend is an awesome collection of daguerrotype photographs of (mostly) handsome men - some are even colorized (cool!).

In photography, you can control depth of field using the aperture or f-stop setting. A short depth of field focuses on the subject in the foreground but blurs the background (like f/2.8). For a deep depth of field, you would use a narrow f-stop setting (like f/16).

Here is a list of the best covers from 2011. 

I've always loved this 1961 poster for West Side Story. The font is bold but rough like the west side itself. I love the way the stacked words are bordered by the staircases on the side. We talked about Saul Bass and his contributions to graphic design in class. The amount of work he has done that I recognize is mind-boggling. What a master. 

Someone posted their own application of these 6 perspectives of visual analysis to this Banksy image: http://andragroza.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/image-analysis/

Briefly revisiting our topic on semiotics, I had to post this image that has been making the rounds on the internet. THIS IS NOT A POPE!