Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 23:43:24 GMT -5
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is a famous saying that we all know, but can we agree with this statement? I am increasingly convinced of the opposite: 1000 words are worth more than an image ! It's true, today we live in the era of images: between television, social media such as Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook we are inundated with images every day. From Homo sapiens to Homo spectans it is a short step. The books themselves have long been challenging those who produce the flashiest, flashiest, most eye-catching covers.
But it is partly understandable, at least in the publishing context: once upon a time, given the scarcity of books compared to today, publishing could afford books with little or no "graphic" covers. Today, however, the cry "A picture is worth a thousand words" is being raised from many quarters. But who invented that saying? There are various sources regarding its Special Data origin, some say it is a Chinese proverb (it's not true), some say it belongs to Frederick R. Barnard, who, in December 1921, praising the graphics in advertisements wrote “One look is worth a thousand words”.
But was he really the inventor? In 1910 this sentence appeared in volume 72 of Marketing Communications edited by the University of Pennsylvania: One Striking Cartoon is worth a thousand columns of solemn editorial in the newspaper In the same year here is a similar sentence in Transactions of the … Annual Convocation … : One noble deed is worth a thousand words Yet in 1865, again in Pennsylvania, in the book Manna-Crumbs for hungry souls we read: one kiss of his [Christ] fairest face, is worth ten thousand worlds of such rotten stuff as the foolish sons of men set their hearts upon; But here 30 years earlier, in 1838, in Tales of the Day. Selected from the Most Distinguished English Authors as They Issue from the Press one finds: one glance of her eyes is worth a thousand fathers.
But it is partly understandable, at least in the publishing context: once upon a time, given the scarcity of books compared to today, publishing could afford books with little or no "graphic" covers. Today, however, the cry "A picture is worth a thousand words" is being raised from many quarters. But who invented that saying? There are various sources regarding its Special Data origin, some say it is a Chinese proverb (it's not true), some say it belongs to Frederick R. Barnard, who, in December 1921, praising the graphics in advertisements wrote “One look is worth a thousand words”.
But was he really the inventor? In 1910 this sentence appeared in volume 72 of Marketing Communications edited by the University of Pennsylvania: One Striking Cartoon is worth a thousand columns of solemn editorial in the newspaper In the same year here is a similar sentence in Transactions of the … Annual Convocation … : One noble deed is worth a thousand words Yet in 1865, again in Pennsylvania, in the book Manna-Crumbs for hungry souls we read: one kiss of his [Christ] fairest face, is worth ten thousand worlds of such rotten stuff as the foolish sons of men set their hearts upon; But here 30 years earlier, in 1838, in Tales of the Day. Selected from the Most Distinguished English Authors as They Issue from the Press one finds: one glance of her eyes is worth a thousand fathers.