Visual Allusions: Pictures of Perception / Edition 1

by Nicholas Wade

Overview

In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Originally published in 1990, Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of pictures that communicate hidden messages, either by implying something else, or by a shape or portrait which is carried covertly within another design. He analyses image processing stages in vision, demonstrating that the various stages may be related to styles in representational art. He shows how the way we have been taught to look at and recognise objects, affects the way we see them. The book lavishly illustrates with original examples of visual allusions and includes detailed practical advice on how photographers and designers can create them. Essential reading for photographers, designers, artists, people in film and television, and anyone involved in visual science , visual communication and advertising.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138205086
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/13/2017
Series:	Psychology Library Editions: Perception , #32
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nicholas Wade is a longtime reporter for The New York Times's Science section, which studies by the Times have shown is the most popular section of the paper around the country. Before writing for the Times, Wade was the deputy editor of Nature magazine in London, one of the world's most prestigious science publications, and a reporter for Science magazine, the world's premier science journal. He is the author or coauthor of six books, including A Natural History of Vision.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Images of Vision 2. Pictures as Allusions 3. Literal Pictures 4. Visual Allusions 5. Pictures and Perception. Appendix 1: High-contrast Photographic Techniques. Appendix 2: The Combination of Graphics with Photography. Author Index. Subject Index