Week 6 Outline

Week 6

Why we see what we see: Principles of composition

What does an image actually show? How does the image organise its space? How does it organise us, its viewer? What visual cues are we offered? Compositional interpretation claims to look at images for what they are, rather than what they do or how they are used. It looks very carefully at the form and experiencing of images by breaking down their composition into a number of components, for example, colour, spatial organisation, light.