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    The concept of a picture being worth a 1000 words does not appear to go all the way back to Confucius, as some profess, but is traceable as far back as 1862 to the novel by Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons: "The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book." Then in March, 1911 newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane, in the context of promoting Streetcar advertising, advised the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club to "use a picture, It's worth a thousand words." This was followed a decade later by Frederick R. Barnard asserting in the December 8, 1921 issue of Printer's Ink that "One look is worth a thousand words", and again by him in the March 10, 1927 issue of Printer's Ink where he inflated this concept to "One picture is worth ten thousand words."

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    The concept of a picture being worth a 1000 words does not appear to go all the way back to Confucius, as some profess, but is traceable as far back as 1862 to the novel by Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons: "The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book." Then in March, 1911 newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane, in the context of promoting Streetcar advertising, advised the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club to "use a picture, It's worth a thousand words." This was followed a decade later by Frederick R. Barnard asserting in the December 8, 1921 issue of Printer's Ink that "One look is worth a thousand words", and again by him in the March 10, 1927 issue of Printer's Ink where he inflated this concept to "One picture is worth ten thousand words."

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    1000 WORD PICTURES by Barry J. Lipson

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    The concept of a picture being worth a 1000 words does not appear to go all the way back to Confucius, as some profess, but is traceable as far back as 1862 to the novel by Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons: "The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book." Then in March, 1911 newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane, in the context of promoting Streetcar advertising, advised the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club to "use a picture, It's worth a thousand words." This was followed a decade later by Frederick R. Barnard asserting in the December 8, 1921 issue of Printer's Ink that "One look is worth a thousand words", and again by him in the March 10, 1927 issue of Printer's Ink where he inflated this concept to "One picture is worth ten thousand words."

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    1000 WORD PICTURES

    By Barry J. Lipson
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    The concept of a picture being worth a 1000 words does not appear to go all the way back to Confucius, as some
    profess, but is traceable as far back as 1862 to the novel by Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons: "The drawing
    shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book." Then in March, 1911 newspaper editor
    Arthur Brisbane, in the context of promoting Streetcar advertising, advised the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club
    to "use a picture, It's worth a thousand words." This was followed a decade later by Frederick R. Barnard
    asserting in the December 8, 1921 issue of Printer's Ink that "One look is worth a thousand words", and again by
    him in the March 10, 1927 issue of Printer's Ink where he inflated this concept to One picture is worth ten
    thousand words."
    In this tome, 1000 Word Pictures, are explored through, of course, pictures. After several eye-catching and
    historic examples, we see how this concept is used in your authors companion publication Flag Desecration
    Photo Essay (http://www.scribd.com/doc/74473420/Flag-Desecration-Photo-Essay-by-Barry-J-Lipson), where
    collages of various Flag Desecration related subjects are used to wordlessly convey both an intellectually honest
    representation of the subject and the underlying intellectual and emotional realization that any governmental
    and/or legislative action to curb this legitimate avenue of free speech would be not only unconstitutional, but
    unwise, as would any attempt to monkey with the Constitution. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan
    has cautioned: We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the
    freedom that this cherished emblem represents.

    An example of such a story picture can be seen in this city scene of very heavy traffic, with many pedestrians. But
    unknown to all of them but the photographer, a jumper is presumably falling to his death amidst them.

    Another example of 1000 Word Pictures is


    your authors cover photograph to his Arab
    Spring article Egypt Revisited 2001 - 2011
    (http://www.scribd.com/doc/48723396/EgyptRevisited-by-Barry-J-Lipson), showing a
    picture of the Arab Spring blooming in
    Egypt. Note under the Pyramids a soldier on
    attentive military alert being completely
    ignored by the civilians in the background.

    But before continuing it may be of interest to


    note that the picture to the left, which is
    included in the following Burn Baby Burn
    US collage, is in no way flag desecration, but
    is the officially sanctioned burning of wornout flags, in this instance by an American
    Legionnaire. Your visual clue is that the
    burner is wearing the official American
    Legion Garrison Cap (also known as the Side
    Cap, Overseas Cap or C-Cap).

    HISTORIC & OTHER 1000-WORD PICTURES WITHOUT COMMENT

    Following are more examples of 1000 Word


    Pictures in the form of photographic collages,
    without wordy written comment, from your
    authors Flag Desecration Photo Essay
    (http://www.scribd.com/doc/74473420/FlagDesecration-Photo-Essay-by-Barry-J-Lipson).
    Please determine for yourself, without
    exceeding Eddie Murphys 1000-word limit, if

    they do wordlessly convey both an


    intellectually honest representation of the
    subject and the underlying intellectual and
    emotional realization that any governmental
    and/or legislative action to curb this legitimate
    avenue of free speech would be not only
    unconstitutional, but unwise.
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    and

    now the

    u.S.

    itself has become a


    potential

    Flag desecrator

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