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, referred to as art, which serve to make the printed words more compelling. Are there a thousand words here? It doesn't matter. Art overpowers words.