Seriously…this is easily the best book I've read within the past year. I have never learned as much about how a visual image is composed as I have from this book. It's a short book…you can easily read it within a day or two…but then you'll want to read it again…slowly and carefully. Ms. Bang uses the absolute minimum to distill how emotion is conveyed through pictures…the examples are fantastically clear. If you want to learn how to look at art, read this book!