The People in the Photo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People in the Photo write by Hélène Gestern. This book was released on 2014-01-28. The People in the Photo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 'genuinely affecting' [The Independent] novel deals with discovering secrets about a long-dead parent. 'A beguiling and compelling love story' Sunday Times Parisian archivist Hélène knows very little about her mother, Nathalie, who died when she was four. In the hope of learning more, she places a newspaper advert calling for information on Nathalie and two unknown men pictured with her at a tennis tournament in 1971. Against the odds, she receives a response from Stéphane, a Swiss biologist: his father is one of the people in the photo. More letters, and more photos, pass between them, in an attempt to unearth the truth their parents kept from them. But as they piece together events from the past, will they discover more than they can actually deal with? Winner of twenty-five literary awards, this dark yet moving drama deftly explores the themes of blame and forgiveness, identity and love.
The people
The people - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The people write by . This book was released on 2013. The people available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Happenstance
Happenstance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Happenstance write by Robert Root. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Happenstance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parents’ lives, in particular their marriages (they married and divorced each other twice), and consequently the shaping of his identity. Happenstance investigates the effects of that phenomenon and choice on one man’s life. Root explores this theme in interwoven strands of narrative, interpretation, and reflection. One strand, “The Hundred Days,” follows his attempt to write one hundred journal entries, each about a different day in his life, to recover memories of specific moments or collections of moments. In the strand headed “Album,” he examines and interprets old family photographs in light of the way he reads them in the present, as someone now privy to a family secret that directed his and his siblings’ lives without their knowledge. Interspersed among these brief interpretations and narratives are reflections on happenstance and choice, a sequence contemplating their effect on his life and perhaps on all our lives. Through juxtaposition and accumulation, the book’s incremental unraveling of meaning imitates the process of unexpected epiphanies and gradual self-discovery in anyone’s life. By revisiting individual days, giving voice to photographs that mutely preserve family moments, and reflecting on the way happenstance and choice determine the directions lives take, Robert Root generates a meditation on identity anchored in an album in words and images of a mid-twentieth-century life.
The People Book
The People Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People Book write by David J. Marcou. This book was released on 2004-01-01. The People Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebration in words and images of the human condition.
Photo Idea Index - People
Photo Idea Index - People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Photo Idea Index - People write by Jim Krause. This book was released on 2010-07-28. Photo Idea Index - People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rethink, revitalize and reinvent the way you shoot portraits. Photo Idea Index: People is a photography book unlike any other. Rather than focusing on the "how to" aspects of digital photography, author Jim Krause focuses on the "what if" aspects. You'll learn how to use your camera to photograph people around you from different perspectives and how to capture personal, beautiful digital images. You'll learn how subtle variations in setting, lighting, props and digital manipulation can change the look of an image dramatically. Krause shares his shooting techniques—both on-site and post-shooting digital treatments—so you can train your eyes to look for situations that will allow you to capture unique shots and create remarkable compositions.
