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

    By Barbara Levine, Paige Ramey and Martin Venezky

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    A fascinating collection of photographs from the past century that have surprising, funny, and poignant captions.

    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 describe in words and sentences the pictures and moments of our lives. This celebration of a century of personal photo captions, in all their forms, themes, and voices, explores the captivating (and often contradictory) relationship between what we see in photos and what we say about them.

    Through 150 color and black-and-white vintage photographs of everyday people dating back to the early twentieth century, arranged in nine thematic chapters (This is me grooving, This is my snarky side, This is me in love, etc.), Caption This reveals the funny and surprising history of the captions emblazoned beneath, lurking behind, or even scrawled across the images.

    Caption This is a unique delight for photography and pop culture enthusiasts that combines the candidness of Awkward Family Photos with the confessional intimacy of PostSecret.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
    Release dateOct 3, 2023
    ISBN9781797226927
    Caption This: A Photographic Collection of Amusing Comments, Snarky Asides, and Romantic Admissions
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    Barbara Levine

    Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey are collectors, artists, and curators specializing in vernacular photography. Their photography collection, known as PhotoMania, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and their collection of vintage photograph albums was acquired by the International Center of Photography in New York. They run Project B, an archive and collaborative curatorial venture. They live in Houston and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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      Book preview

      Caption This - Barbara Levine

      Cover: Caption This by Levine Ramey.Logo: Chronicle Books LLC

      PUBLISHED BY

      Princeton Architectural Press

      A division of Chronicle Books LLC

      70 West 36th Street

      New York, NY 10018

      www.papress.com

      © 2023 Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey

      Resisting Capture: The Counterculture of the Caption

      © 2023 Kim Beil

      All rights reserved.

      NO PART of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except in the context of reviews. Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors or omissions will be corrected in subsequent editions.

      EDITOR: Jennifer N. Thompson

      DESIGNER: Martin Venezky

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Levine, Barbara, 1960– author. | Ramey, Paige, author.

      Title: Caption this : a photographic collection of amusing comments, snarky asides, and romantic admissions / Barbara Levine, Paige Ramey.

      Description: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2023. | Summary: A celebration of a century of personal photo captions in all their forms, themes, and voices —Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2022060352 (print) | LCCN 2022060353 (ebook) | ISBN 9781797223346 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781797226927 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Photograph captions. | Photographs—Humor. | Levine, Barbara, 1960—Photograph collections. | Photographs—Collectors and collecting. | Photographs—Private collections—United States.

      Classification: LCC TR147 .L48 2023 (print) | LCC TR147 (ebook) | DDC 770—dc23/eng/20230119

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022060352

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022060353

      First and Last Words

      BARBARA LEVINE AND PAIGE RAMEY WITH PETER L. STEIN

      This is me

      This is my fashion statement

      This is me grooving

      This is my self-conscious

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