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SC51 post 25 June - A picture is worth a thousand words.
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This famous saying has been attributed to several sources over the years.
Here is an opportunity for you to interpret this with your own photo, letting it tell the story. Anything goes (family friendly, of course), and you may wish to add a description anyway.
unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2019/04/11/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words
Have fun!
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Below an extract from Wikipedia's origin of the quote ...
March 1911
... the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club held a banquet to discuss journalism and publicity. In an article in The Post-Standard covering this event, the author quoted Arthur Brisbane as saying: "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." In an article in the Printers' Ink, the same quote is attributed to Brisbane...
1921
The modern use of the phrase is generally attributed to Fred R. Barnard. Barnard wrote this phrase in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. The December 8, 1921, issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."
1927
Another ad by Barnard appears in the March 10, 1927, issue with the phrase "One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words", where it is labeled a Chinese proverb.
1949
The 1949 Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases quotes Barnard as saying he called it "a Chinese proverb, so that people would take it seriously."
c 551-479 BCE
Nonetheless, the proverb soon after became popularly attributed to Confucius. The actual Chinese expression "Hearing something a hundred times isn't better than seeing it once"
Here is an opportunity for you to interpret this with your own photo, letting it tell the story. Anything goes (family friendly, of course), and you may wish to add a description anyway.
unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2019/04/11/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words
Have fun!
______________________________________________
Below an extract from Wikipedia's origin of the quote ...
March 1911
... the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club held a banquet to discuss journalism and publicity. In an article in The Post-Standard covering this event, the author quoted Arthur Brisbane as saying: "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." In an article in the Printers' Ink, the same quote is attributed to Brisbane...
1921
The modern use of the phrase is generally attributed to Fred R. Barnard. Barnard wrote this phrase in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. The December 8, 1921, issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."
1927
Another ad by Barnard appears in the March 10, 1927, issue with the phrase "One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words", where it is labeled a Chinese proverb.
1949
The 1949 Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases quotes Barnard as saying he called it "a Chinese proverb, so that people would take it seriously."
c 551-479 BCE
Nonetheless, the proverb soon after became popularly attributed to Confucius. The actual Chinese expression "Hearing something a hundred times isn't better than seeing it once"
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Gillian Everett clubprimefocuslab.com/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words
Gillian Everett club has replied to Amelia clubHere is my entry
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Gillian Everett clubOr so the saying goes. In reality, a photograph only documents a second in time, and as time goes on, it is easy to forget why a particular moment was so important to capture. However, well-captioned photographs can tell us stories; they can give us information about the subject in the photograph that cannot be ascertained simply by looking at the image. In some instances, photo captions give us information about a subject or an event that cannot be found in any other type of record. So, while a photograph itself may be worth a thousand words, those words can be lost with time, making real words – captions – of the utmost importance.
The following photographs are examples of images that, on the surface, may appear unremarkable or uninteresting. It is the caption information attached to the pictures that give the images substance and meaning.
unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2019/04/11/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words