Temporal Seeing as Visual Literacy

Temporal seeing is a mode of visual perception that interrupts the spatial bias we bring to visual literacy practices. Although an image only captures one moment in time, there are multiple spatioanalytical tools we can use to consider any image. Spatial literacy, which is the practice of analyzing...

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Published inJournal of literacy research Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 123 - 132
Main Authors Saul, Roger, Gerbrandt, Julianne, Burkholder, Casey
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2024
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Imagery
Literacy
Time
Visual perception
temporal seeing
hidden literacies
time
temporal analysis
visual literacies
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Summary:Temporal seeing is a mode of visual perception that interrupts the spatial bias we bring to visual literacy practices. Although an image only captures one moment in time, there are multiple spatioanalytical tools we can use to consider any image. Spatial literacy, which is the practice of analyzing objects through their properties in space, tends to be the default analytical mode for making sense of imagery. For people to bring a commensurate temporal richness to their articulated visual readings, we first highlight the perspectival richness of time and temporality. We next present five precepts that can guide enriched temporal seeing: contextual histories; relational chronologies; internal rhymicity; desequenced and resequenced narrative; and critique and meaning-making. Finally, we suggest that temporal seeing holds a series of educative possibilities for expanding the interpretive frames and perceptual apparatuses of literacy researchers and practitioners.
ISSN:1086-296X
1554-8430
DOI:10.1177/1086296X241244682