Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

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Not least, that using AI to generate these sorts of illustrative images – if that’s what was done – is surely much cheaper to the developer than paying a visual artist to do the work. Also, there’ is a slightly odd ‘utopia’ vibe to the images which is not dissimilar to something Roland Meyer has identified as typical of Midjourney’s generated images.

This Second Edition provides a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture. The new edition of Gillian Rose's bestselling critical introduction to the study and analysis of visual culture has been fully revised and updated. It examines what images are trusted by young people across Europe, how health influencers try to create trust-worthy images, and what role the different platform affordances play.If anyone has other examples of ads that show people flying through urban space, please let me know! most exciting, startling and perceptive critics of visual images don't in the end depend entirely on their sound methodology, I think. I don’t think any of the images in the exhibition used any of those techniques to organise their space. Landscapes are full of houses, valleys, peaks, lakes, bridges, flying things, flowing things, cities, weather.

This kind of analysis has its limits, but it does show patterns that would be very hard to see otherwise – the details of the study of National Geographic, particularly in linking it to the race stuff going on in the US at the time, makes this point particularly clearly. Liberating the book from an attempt to place all chapters under the umbrella of methods would, in my view, allow for a fuller appreciation of what the book does accomplish. No references, no footnotes, not too much qualification and specification (which carries risks of course).It might also be no coincidence that Dune and Andor are strongly focussed on character and story and are, relatively, really well-written and involving. For example "compositional interpretation" is applied to fine arts paintings and films (and video games, less convincingly); visual content analysis is applied to the study of National Geographic magazine photographs; semiology (semiotics) is almost entirely devoted to the study of advertising; psychoanalysis to the study of sexual difference in film. And there are situations in which embodied engagement with images remains absolutely pivotal (as our TRAVIS team discussion emphasised – Kat Tiidenberg is our project lead). Netflix bills The Kitchen as sci-fi, but the Kitchen’s invaders aren’t aliens, as in Attack the Block, or zombies: they’re the police enforcing the evictions that’ll allow the Kitchen to be redeveloped.

Chapter 6 focuses on psychoanalysis and the roles that art/images play with the internal abstract functions of the human mind. These are linked together by codes, or ways of knowing, and because there is an arbitrary, but socially conventional, link between the signifier and the signified, signs can be made to ‘comment’ on each other – that is, transfer their meanings between each other.As for Andor, one of the early episodes – maybe the first – had Andor walking through street at night and passing bubble-type enclosures, inside of which some sort of figures were moving. Rose's book is mainly (except for one chapter) focused on methodologies for analyzing 'found' or pre-existing images (as opposed to producing visual data or analyzing visual phenomena that are not images) but it does that in a very systematic and practical manner, clearly highlighting the exact modus operandi as well as the specific strengths and weaknesses of each of the methods or analytical frameworks.