Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections

This workshop provides methods to gain information from photographs and to understand how this information can be applied in a practical manner to help manage, arrange, and describe collections more effectively and to help researchers to gain information from them.

This workshop adds more concepts important for understanding the intellectual and physical nature of photographs. Incorporating these concepts into daily practice has practical and economical benefits for the archivist and provides better service to the researcher. Learn to understand the photograph as an artifact through the lens of visual literacy and then apply this understanding to photograph collection management and research uses.