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  2. Photo-essay - Wikipedia

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    A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along a narrative journey. [1] Examples of photo essays include: A web page or portion of a web site. A single montage or collage of photographic images, with text or other additions, intended to be viewed both as a whole and as individual photographs.

  3. 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."

  4. Imagery - Wikipedia

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    Visual imagery pertains to graphics, visual scenes, pictures, or the sense of sight. Auditory imagery pertains to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing. (This kind of imagery may come in the form of onomatopoeia). Olfactory imagery pertains to odors, aromas, scents, or the sense of smell.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Narrative art - Wikipedia

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    Though it requires sophisticated conventions to make the narrative clear, narrative art occurs very early in the history of art.A number of reliefs in the European Bronze Age Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin show monoscenic narratives of hunting or battle, the former sometimes indicating the movements of hunter or prey with indications of their tracks in a way similar to modern ...

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    gives an example of an informative yet brief full-sentence caption describing the key element (the singular protagonist) depicted and its relationship to the article's subject. The need for a full-length caption in an infobox can generally indicate one of two things: 1) an exceptionally inappropriate image or 2) an image that doesn't really ...

  8. Caption (text) - Wikipedia

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    A caption is a short descriptive or explanatory text, usually one or two sentences long, which accompanies a photograph, picture, map, graph, pictorial illustration, figure, table or some other form of graphic content contained in a book or in a newspaper or magazine article. [1] [2] [3] The caption is usually placed directly below the image.

  9. Ekphrasis - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the visual arts, it may enhance the original art and so take on a life of its own through its brilliant description. One example is a painting of a sculpture: the painting is "telling the story of" the sculpture, and so becoming a storyteller, as well as a story (work of art) itself.