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Caption This A Photographic Collection of Amusing Comments, Snarky Asides, and Romantic Admissions

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Publisher's Synopsis

A celebration of a century of personal photo captions in all their forms, themes, and voices.

Whether it's scripted words in pencil scrawled below an old Polaroid, or a pithy caption on a social media photo today, we've all felt a pull to the words and sentences that describe the pictures and moments in time of our lives... In this delightful collection of surprising, funny, and poignant photographs from over the past century, Caption This celebrates the captivating (and often contradictory) relationship between what we see and what we say.

Through 150 color and black & white photographs of everyday people dating back to the early twentieth century, this book reveals - in nine thematic chapters (This is me grooving; This is my snarky side; This is me in love, for example) - the funny and surprising history of comments their handwritten or typed captions have inspired, with the candidness of Awkward Family Photos and the "confessional intimacy" of PostSecret.

About the Publisher

Princeton Architectural Press

Celebrating our thirty-second year, Princeton Architectural Press is a world leader in architecture and design publishing, both in market share and in editorial and design excellence. With over 1000 titles published, we have consistently sought the best in our field, and are privileged to be able to attract and publish it. We've made our reputation in part by identifying new trends and publishing first books on emerging talents, as well as definitive works on established names, and by creating books of unsurpassed design quality and production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781797223346
Publisher: PPC
Imprint: Princeton Architectural Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 770
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230119
Language: English
Number of pages: 175
Weight: 412g
Height: 147mm
Width: 212mm
Spine width: 19mm