Talking pictures: images and messages rescued from the past

✍ Scribed by Ransom Riggs

• Publisher: HarperCollins;ItBooks
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 6 MB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0062099507

✦ Synopsis

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.