Photolanguage: How Photos Reveal the Fascinating Stories of Our Lives and Relationships

About this book

With 150 photographs of famous people and ordinary folks this engaging book uncovers the stories behind the pictures. There is more going on in most photographs than we usually seehidden desires and fears unspoken loves and hates peoples valiant efforts to camouflage themselves in the public world and the inevitable leakage of their hopes and dreams and difficulties. Most of us do not see these aspects because as Robert Akeret says we do not know the vocabulary of photolanguage. Here using 150 photographs spanning 100 years Akeret explores such themes as power seduction immortality passion and narcissism. Readers will find Frank Sinatra uncharacteristically off balance O. J. Simpson smirking his way to freedom Jodie Foster adored by her mother Bill Clinton unconvincingly wagging a finger and Bill Gates as the Wizard of Oz. The author shares his personal interpretations teaching by example and inviting readers to join the fun. 148 black-and-white photographs. 148 black-and-white photographs