![]() ![]() ![]() He apparently combed through almost a half million photos fathered form friends, collectors, thrift shops, and old bookstores and settled on the ones from which he could create stories or at least connect the unapparent dotted lines between disparate images that contain a thee or thread of connection. Ransom Riggs has found a way to bring the past up to date with this charming and entertaining book of photographs that happen to have annotations attached. ![]() Now that the various electronic gismos are in wide use, from children who are just learning to read to the elderly from the age when privacy was sacred, there are few moments that remain private: everything is available by Google or Facebook or Twitter or any of the other means of instantly sharing photographic images of people, couples, families or minor indiscretions! So if everything that is currently happening is public information, what about those mementoes form the past that have been settled in an old shoebox awaiting discovery by inquisitive eyes exploring the past? ![]()
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