Issue 3 June 2013

Introduction ….

Roberto Muffoletto welcomes you to our open, online, and free VASA Journal on Images and Culture (VJIC).

Our goal is to provide a stream of ideas and concepts concerning our global visual language. Join the discussion by commenting on each manuscript, review, and portfolio.

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Manuscripts

A. D. Coleman
Dinosaur Bones: The End (and Ends) of Photo Criticism (Part 2)

Let me return to considering the state of the discourse. Due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances, I parted company with the Village Voice …

Maureen Walters
What is Visual Literacy

There is no simple definition of visual literacy. Since its beginning visual literacy has developed into a concept …

Natalya Reznik
Images of Elderly People in Contemporary Documentary Projects

In contemporary documentary photography one can observe a variety of images depicting elderly people, their daily lives, their habits, attitude towards life …

Portfolios
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Susan Keiser
A River Made of Time and Memory

The box sat unopened for years until a frozen pipe burst, flooding the basement of my mother’s empty house …

Dead bird series

Arvind Garg
Death on the Beach

Feeling somewhat intrigued, I looked closely at the dead birds, perhaps for the first …