A Thousand Words

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

A picture is worth a thousand words. This phrase became popular in the 1920s and is often credited to Fred R. Bernard, who used it in reference to advertising illustration. Communication can be both verbal and visual. The composition here has an underlying newspaper theme, but newspapers have photos and illustrations, which make the printed words more compelling. Photographs are just one type of art used in graphic design. Photos serve as portraits, or they can be illustrative, editorial, news accounts, etc. Art can also be illustration, drawings, diagrams, editorial art, etc. Then there are the words. Are there a thousand here? I didn’t count and it doesn’t matter. Art overpowers words.

This composition also contains some of my own earlier illustrations, before all that went to CAD.

The cutaway illustration at the bottom left edge is an old illustration of mine, as are the two cylindrical bearing projections at the top right edge. The cylindrical bearings have often appeared in my self-promotional materials over the years.

A Thousand Words appeared in the April 2024 issue of Living the Photo Artistic Life.