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We hear increasingly of 'visual literacy,' the ability to 'read' pictorial images – still and moving photographs, for example – to answer the surprisingly difficult question of what they are 'about.'

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We hear increasingly of 'visual literacy,' the ability to 'read' pictorial images – still and moving photographs, for example – to answer the surprisingly difficult question of what they are 'about.'

Citation Source: 
O'Toole 1998

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology