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  2. Photo caption - Wikipedia

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    Caption examples. Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. [1] In some cases captions and cutlines are distinguished, where the caption is a short (usually one-line) title/explanation for the photo, while the cutline is a longer, prose block under the caption, generally describing the photograph, giving context, or ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    Depending on the nature of the subject and the image used, the ideal caption can range from none at all to a regular full-sentence caption. The following examples serve to describe the range of situations for particular infobox images: No caption – Infoboxes normally display the page name as the title of the infobox. If nothing more than the ...

  4. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    For example, Leonardo da Vinci wrote that a poet would be "overcome by sleep and hunger before [being able to] describe with words what a painter is able to [depict] in an instant." [ 10 ] The Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote in 1861, "The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book."

  5. Visual rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Icons, or iconic signs, are recognized based on resemblance to known elements or items (e.g., one's ID photo on a company badge). Indexes, or indexical signs, are recognized based on understanding of a visual trace, imprint, or element that signals prior activity, or process, the agent of which is no longer visible (e.g., tire tracks in the sand).

  6. Carte de visite - Wikipedia

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    Cartes de visite camera with four lenses. Engraving from D. V. Monckhoven. Traité Général Photographie Comprenant tous les Procédés Connus jusqu'à ce Jour; La Théorie de la Photographie Application aux Sciences d’Observation. 1863 1859 carte de visite of Napoleon III by Disdéri, which popularized the carte-de-visite format One of the first cartes de visite of Queen Victoria taken by ...

  7. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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    The human body is capable of a wide variety of positions, as exemplified by this energetic yoga position, "astavakrasana".. Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take.

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Images

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    Logged in users with autoconfirmed accounts (meaning at least four days old and at least ten edits at the English Wikipedia) can upload media to the English Wikipedia. Only free licensed media, not fair use media, may be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Media on Wikimedia Commons can be linked to in the same way as media of the same name on ...

  9. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Adlai Stevenson II shows aerial photos of Russian missiles in Cuba to the United Nations Security Council in the presence of USSR ambassador Valerian Zorin. [ s 2 ] Firefighters aiming high-pressure water hoses at civil rights demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama