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a thousand words

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People from all walks of life parade through a field with the singular vision of ... allergy relief? Doesn't the propaganda poster and the advertisement for American pharmaceutical corporations share the same visual vocabulary?

Where the adage, "A picture is worth a thousand words" (propaganda) to "A word is worth thousand pictures" (stock photography search engines) becomes "A thousand words is worth a picture worth thousands of dollars" (advertising).

For more propaganda art than you can handle, go to 6park

Posted by on May 16, 2005 4:07 AM |



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