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Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past
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Start date
June 2, 2016
Finish date
June 3, 2016

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Dolly
Jun 03, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: art, 2016, humor, nonfiction
I've enjoyed reading the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs and I love how he incorporates old random (and often weird, eerie, and/or obviously faked) photos into the storyline.

Sometimes I wonder if he derives inspiration for the plot from the photos he finds, or if he searches out particular (or maybe I should say peculiar) photos to go along with his plot. Perhaps a bit of both, I suppose.

This book shows how boxes of old photographs can be treasure chests to the histori
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