ABSTRACT
When I teach photography, I ask my students a series of questions. How many of you have taken an English literature course? All hands go up. So what did you learn? With some prompting, my students tell me they learned how to analyze short stories, poems, plays, and novels. Next I ask: How many of you have taken a course on analyzing visual images? Perhaps a few, if any, hands rise. Then, I pose this question: How many short stories, poems, plays, and novels do you read in an average day? And, of course, the final question: How many visual images do you encounter in an average day?
