How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers
This comprehensive review of materials on visual literacy is useful not only for the references to key articles, but for the essays introducing each section. The first looks at the different ways people use pictures - for religion, propaganda, teaching. Although many pictures and diagrams are universally understood, others depend on the cultural context: 'images are as culture-bound as words and ideas'. PRA maps are discussed as examples of 'pictures and participation'.