Post by Anne Fowler

Photographs and text tell stories in different ways and both are powerful. But when used together, the power increases exponentially. Photos put a face on the characters you've created in your head when reading text. Text tells the story of what is contained in a photograph. It is a mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationship. Text and photos can exist on their own, but rhetoric is more effective when they are used in combination.

BGY: This is a good starting place for a discussion about other works besides Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. If you agree, why is the relationship between visual and verbal rhetoric a symbiotic one? Is it, in fact, synergy?