Visual Interaction

“Visual Interaction” (Kress and Van Leeuwen; DR Ch. 26; p. 362)

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Important Concepts:

• represented vs. interactive participants (362)
• 3 kinds of relations between participants (362)
• producer vs. viewer (362)
• real vs. implied authors, readers (363)
• image act (366)
• gaze (366)
• demand vs. offer (366-7)
• types of distance (370)
• horizontal angle: frontal vs. oblique (372)
• involvement vs. detachment (376)
• back view (378)
• vertical angle: low vs. high (379)
• power relation (379)

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