Talking pictures
Subtitle: images and messages rescued from the past
By: Ransom Riggs
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: It Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780062099495
Subjects: Portrait photography
Description: A haunting collection of antique found photographs, with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life. Each image reveals a singular, frozen moment in a person's life, be it joyful, quiet, or steeped in sorrow; each inscription illuminates the photograph's particular context, and lights up our connection to the past.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Clowning around; title: Love and marriage; title: Times of trouble; title: Life during wartime; title: Janet Lee; title: Hide this please; title: Unsolved mysteries.