Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past

by Ransom Riggs

2020-12-31 09:16:36

With the candid quirkiness of Awkward Family Photos and the confessional intimacy of PostSecret, Ransom Riggs''s Talking Pictures is a haunting collection of antique found photographs--with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moment... Read more
With the candid quirkiness of Awkward Family Photos and the confessional intimacy of PostSecret, Ransom Riggs''s Talking Pictures is a haunting collection of antique found photographs--with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life--from the author of the New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Miss Peregrine''s Home for Peculiar Children. Each image in Talking Pictures reveals a singular, frozen moment in a person''s life, be it joyful, quiet, or steeped in sorrow. Yet the book''s unique depth comes from the writing accompanying each photo: as with the caption revealing how one seemingly random snapshot of a dancing couple captured the first dance of their 40-year marriage, each successive inscription shines like a flashbulb illuminating a photograph''s particular context and lighting up our connection to the past. Less

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ISBN9780062099495
Ransom Riggs is the author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Quirk, 2011), a New York Times best seller, as well as its best-selling sequels Hollow City (Quirk, 2013) and Library o...

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