Digital literacy: visual communication and computer images

Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid photographic camera and 60-second process (so useful for love-struck and immodest honeymooners as well as those wanting to demonstrate digital photography with a flatbed scanner, but without a still digital camera) made an important remark about his creative and technical invention process that is of value co all of us who have allowed pixelated patterns of light to fill our eyes and minds with color and wonder: