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title: "Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past"
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# Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past

**Brand:** ransom riggs
**Price:** ₨16239
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- **What is this?** Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past by ransom riggs
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Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An intriguing, entertaining page-turner; inspires me to resurrect this valuable ritual!
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2012*

I enjoyed this "photo album" so immensely I immediately sent a digital gift of it to my mother. It's so incredibly human, proving that our emotions, struggles, joys, sorrows, and laughs are timeless, bonds that reach across decades, even centuries, to tie us together in the experience of life. Ransom Riggs is a rare historian capturing this fragile record of our collective memories, and I applaud his dedication to keeping this rapidly vanishing resource alive.TALKING PICTURES goes from hilarious to heartbreaking and back again, plus everthything in between. It's as fun to flip through as a family album - only more poignant and irreverent. These resurrected bits of rubbish depict *real* people, are real photos, snapped with purpose, only to become a swirling pile leaves fallen from the family tree, caught on the winds of change and swept up, rescued, and collected by Riggs and his fellow enthusiasts.I know my own grandparents were guilty of the very crime of tossing out photographs when they moved across the country in '69. I wish I wish they hadn't done that.I'm going to start turning my digital photographs into real physical prints, and writing on them, too. Riggs is right: this is too important to our history to leave to computers, files, memory cards, flash drives, and Facebook!I'll be giving a copy of this book to many people on my list this Holiday season. It's so entertaining and enchanting I want to share it with everyone I know.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Excellent Choice For Anyone Interested In Found Photos
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2012*

From cover to cover, this book is filled with fascinating images that are thought provoking and capture the reader's imagination.  The author wisely lets the images and their messages do the "talking" and the reader is left to do the interpretation which is the point of the book.  As a collector of such images and similar books in this field, I was not disappointed with the "interestingess" of photos included, the arrangement by theme, and the large number of images included.  This is the kind of book that you can pick up again and again and discover something new.  Destined to become a classic within the field of found/vernacular photography, this book is a keeper and a must have.  In short, this book works and works well.The quality of the reproductions and the printing is very good and for the price it's a real bargain.  I purchased additional copies to give as gifts.A sequel to "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" this book is not (another fascinating book by the way), it was not intended to be.  Nor is it an overly wordy or scholarly work on found/vernacular photography, which is a good thing in my opinion.  As previously mentioned, the author expertly presents the material and the reader is left to explore the context of each image paired with its message.  The images within the book stand on their own and do so superbly.  I highly recommend this book, it's a real gem.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I like it but...
  

*by C***L on Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2012*

Ok, I am a lover of old photos.  I go to sales as Riggs does and look at them, I have a few of my own that I have purchased.  I was really excited for this book.  So when I remebered it was out, I bought the ebook version.  And I enjoyed it. However, I was hoping for more story telling.  I love the way he did that in the prior book he wrote, I enjoyed that book so much; I have been hoping for the story to continue and get a book two.  Instead we got this one, which, as I have said was cool, but flat.  I am not like the reveiwer who wanted money back, no no, that is not how the world of publishing and the art of writting works, this book is an art, and so is the collecting of the photos.  It just needed more meat. If you love  photos or history this book is for you.p.s.  I love the pictire of the guy in, what looks like the Majave dessert, pretty cool!

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