In an era in which visual culture completely surrounds us, Vogue Italia wants to give its readers the opportunity to look at photography in a critical and conscious way. Once a month we will host on Vogue.it and our Instagram, Reading the Pictures, a web-based, non-profit educational and publishing organization dedicated to visual culture, visual literacy and media literacy through the analysis of news, documentary and social media images.
Through their Chatting the Pictures video format, Michael Shaw, publisher of Reading the Pictures, and Cara Finnegan, writer, professor and historian, will examine news and media images for meaning, trends, context and fairness, helping us to read images, to understand how they work and how they affect us.
You can follow Reading the Pictures on Twitter, Instagram and on the Web.
Reading the Pictures: Beyond Cute
This photo was taken by Drew Angerer for Getty Images. In it, we see Xiao Qi Ji, a nine-month panda cub, climbing a tree at the National Zoo in Washington this past May. In the video, Reading the Pictures discuss why one version of a picture circulates over others, why certain photos consistently find their way into “photo of the week” slideshows, and how this shot relates as much to pandemic recovery as international politics.
CTP is produced by @lilimichelena. Photo: @drewangerer for @gettyimages
