“Before you throw anything out, be sure to glance at the back.”
They’re true hidden gems that made me laugh and cry and contemplate, and I'm just really thankful that this book exists. Here’s some of my personal favorites out of the collection: I personally love looking at old family pictures of mine to see what’s changed, so this was truly an insightful take on such an interesting subject.Īnd I have a feeling that the pictures included in this collection will stay with me for a very long time. It lent the mutest of snapshots a voice.” We’ll never know, but thanks to the inscription on the back we can at least wonder. “Maybe the picture is blurred because she couldn’t stop her hands from shaking as she took it. In a short amount of pages Ransom Riggs managed to make me feel hopeful, fearful and, for a split second, tearful. I absolutely loved the introduction to this story. “The best inscriptions make a snapshot feel current, no matter when it was taken.”
Talking Pictures is a haunting collection of antique found photographs-with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life. “Sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures.”
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