Photographic Composition

October 16th, 2006

Another photographer recommended that I read Photographic Composition by Tom Grill & Mark Scanlon.

In it the authors make the point that our visual education is poor. The arrival of the first camera in the early nineteenth century helped improve knowledge, but ultimately the written language is still top dog.

Go back to the Middle Ages and the common man was used to obtaining info from sketches and paintings. Once books became more widely available, the written word gained dominance.

Visual arts are still on the back foot in my view, and certainly our schools do not value the arts as highly as subjects like maths, English or the sciences.

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