{"id":31456,"date":"2018-09-25T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=31456"},"modified":"2018-09-25T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:15:36","slug":"are-pictures-worth-more-than-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/09\/are-pictures-worth-more-than-words.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Pictures Worth More Than Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/22\/books\/wayetu-moore-she-would-be-king-debut-novel-liberia.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=books&#038;region=stream&#038;module=stream_unit&#038;version=latest&#038;contentPlacement=3&#038;pgtype=sectionfront\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31455\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/09\/are-pictures-worth-more-than-words.html\/nyt-1-375x655\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"375,655\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1537778925&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NYTimes-Arts section front, print edition [Sept. 24, 2018]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655-172x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655.jpg\" alt title=\"Click to enlarge.\" width=\"375\" height=\"655\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>They are at <em>The New York Times,<\/em> it seems. My tut-tutting staff has noticed they have been for some time. Yesterday the print edition provided the most recent example in which the ratio of photo to text, for a book feature no less, is ridiculous. The subject of the article, having written an evocative novel, happens to be strikingly beautiful. But two posed photos, too?<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31454\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/09\/are-pictures-worth-more-than-words.html\/nyt-2-358x655\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"358,655\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1537778874&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NYTimes-Arts section inside, print edition [Sept. 24, 2018]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655-164x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"655\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-2-358x655-164x300.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are at The New York Times, it seems. My tut-tutting staff has noticed they have been for some time. Yesterday the print edition provided the most recent example in which the ratio of photo to text, for a book feature no less, is ridiculous. The subject of the article, having written an evocative novel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-news","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NYT-1-375x655.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31505,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions\/31505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}