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# Words Want Images To Illustrate And Illuminate
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/words-want-images-to-illustrate-and-illuminate/
- Published: 2014-08-11T17:02:02.000Z
- Updated: 2014-08-11T17:02:02.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: photography, writing

> “Words want images to illustrate and illuminate them, while images want words to clarify and contextualize them.”  
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> — [Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography by David Levi Strauss](http://aperture.org/shop/words-not-spent-today-buy-smaller-images-tomorrow-books?ref=cjchilvers.com)