A fotografia como instrumento de educação visual

Abstract

This was, and still is, a major means of communication in human history, gaining utmost importance with the advent of innovative technologies and media, which has become, gradually, in the everyday essentials of contemporary man. The need for visual literacy, which is expressed in several references, such as image reading and critical understanding of visual culture. This work will look at the photographic image as an important element in the development of visual literacy, aesthetic knowledge and the ability to read and interpret pictorial signs, taking as a starting point for art education. So this paper proposes a strategy based on visual syntax reading, analyzing basic elements such as point, line, shape, color, light and shadow, perspective separately, for a broader understanding and reading of images while a possible visual literacy.