telling the story of a lifetime without words
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PART IWhen words and
pictures work together
John D. HipsleyCalifornia, 8 June, 2014
When a Picture Can Tell the Story Alone
PURPOSE OF THIS EXERCISE IS TO: 1) Tell the truth
2) Tell the truth in a story
3) Tell it with pictures
4) Illustrate in one picture – without words - the manner in which an image can express the essence of one person’s life
Once a formidable object of terror tamed by civilization to point of sympathy
Symbol for All Bears dependent for survival on compassion or indifference of humanity
A new symbol
Roosevelt’s Successor Taft served an 18 pound possum at inaugural dinner
Billy Possum marketing story failed against the backstory of the Teddy Bear
Changing perceptions of people towards predators through the stories that we tell
We are living in an age of what science calls
CONSERVATION RELIANCE
Humankind has become so disruptive that nature cannot possibly
stand on its own
From annihilation to affection based on the stories that we tell
PART IIWhen a picture can tell
the story alone
Theodore Roosevelt with John Burroughs and Billy Hofer at camp
The History of the Hunt
Washington Post Cartoon drawn by Clifford Berryman in 1902
‘Drawing a line in Mississippi’
Cartoon drawn in 1909 combines image and words
To Go or Not to Go?
Without Words