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.
| ISBN: | 9780062099495 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 2012 |
| Author: | Ransom Riggs |
| Publisher: | ItBooks an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 366 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Gender studies: women and girls Illustration Drawing and drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayon or pastel Colours and colour theory Photography: portraits and self-portraiture Graphic design Book design and Bookbinding History of art Individual artists, art monographs The Arts: techniques and principles Drawing and drawings General and world history |
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.
Talking Pictures features in the following genres: Popular culture, Gender studies: women and girls, Illustration, Drawing and drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayon or pastel, Colours and colour theory, Photography: portraits and self-portraiture, Graphic design, Book design and Bookbinding, History of art, Individual artists, art monographs, The Arts: techniques and principles, Drawing and drawings, General and world history
Talking Pictures is available in Paperback
Talking Pictures was written by Ransom Riggs and published by ItBooks an imprint of HarperCollins
Talking Pictures has 366 pages
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