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David Weintraub is a writer, editor, photographer, and educator based in Aiken, SC. He is the author of eight travel books and many articles for publications such as Photo District News, Outdoor Photographer, and Hemispheres. David has a master's degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of South Carolina, where he is a full-time instructor teaching visual communications and writing.Eye on Image Making: Why the First Amendment Matters, Part 2
In America today, we can say and publish just about anything we want. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and of the press — and by extension, freedom of thought and freedom of expression. But despite the fact that the First Amendment was ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, the [...]
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- Eye on Image-Making: Why the First Amendment Matters, Part 1
- Eye on Image-Making: My Visit to the Newseum
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: The Multitasking Generation
- Eye on Image-Making: Palmetto Portraits
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Reflections on the Semester
- Notes from the Viscom Classroom: How’s Your Elevator Speech?
- Not Fade Away: The Ballad of Jim Marshall
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Can Creativity Be Taught?
- Eye on Image-Making: Sales Is Not a Four-Letter Word
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teaching Software
- Eye on Image-Making: Financial Planning, Part 3
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: The Knight Case Studies Initiative
- Eye on Image-Making: East Meets West
- Eye on Image-Making: Financial Planning, Part 2
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Ansel Adams for Extra Credit
- Eye on Image-Making: Financial Planning, Part 1
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Text and Context
- Eye on Image-Making: Creating a Marketing Strategy and Resume
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Evaluating Assignments
- Eye on Image-Making: Writing a Mission Statement for Your Photography Business
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Crafting Course Assignments
- Eye on Image-Making: Words Are Important, Too
- Eye on Image-Making: Looking vs. Seeing
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: What Makes a Great Teacher?
- Eye on Image-Making: Robert Frank Redux
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Integrating Video into the Curriculum
- Eye on Image-Making: Robert Frank, the Essential Outsider
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Seven Tips for Teaching Video
- Eye on Image-Making: Video in the Corporate World
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Getting Down to Business
- Eye on Image-Making: Eight Tips for Aspiring Photographers
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teaching Video
- Eye on Image-Making: Five Ways to Tell if a Photographer Is Really in Business
- Eye on Image-Making: Portraiture Now
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Is It Better to Teach Full Time or Part Time?
- Eye on Image-Making: A Dream Revealed
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Goals and Outcomes
- Eye on Image-Making: Visual Clichés
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: The Tables Turned
- Eye on Image-Making: Economic Meltdown, a Hot Crisis
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Rubrics
- Eye on Image-Making: KobreGuide
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: News as History
- Eye on Image-Making: Newspapers and Video, Part 2
- Eye on Image-Making: Newspapers & Video, Part 1
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teaching — It’s Not for Everyone (But It May Be Right for You!)
- Eye on Image-Making: Cousin Lou Comes to Visit
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teacher Goes Back to School, Part 2
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teacher Goes Back to School
- Eye on Image-Making: Visual Literacy
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Grading
- Eye on Image-Making: Portfolios
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Taking Stock
- Eye on Image-Making: Business Aspects, Part 3
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Career Pathways
- Eye on Image-Making: Business Aspects, Part 2
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Exploring Journalistic Ethics
- Eye on Image-Making: Business Aspects, Part I
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: The Career Pyramid
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: A Tale of Two Students
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: End of Semester
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: The Documentary Attraction
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Remember When Photography Was Something Brand New?
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Overcoming Shyness in Photographing People
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: What Makes a Course “Advanced”?
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: My Eight Tips for Teachers
- Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Are You Teaching Video (Yet)?
