Between 1935-1946 (roughly) photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein crisscrossed the United States for the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) to document the results of government programs. What resulted is “The File,” an amazing collection of 170,000 depression-era images that are nothing short of a […]
Migrant Mother
LET’S PUT THIS TO REST: The phrase is, “One picture is worth ten thousand words”
Or is it? There is an idiom that haunts every graphic designer—one that we have heard, ad nauseam, all of our lives. It is: “A picture is worth a thousand words”… OR “One picture is worth a thousand words”… OR “One look is worth a thousand words”… OR “Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand […]