A Picture Becomes a Thousand Words: The Transcendental Role of Photography in Constructing a Historical Narrative

Join us in the Cold today as we excavate the past through photographs, and talk about how to make new worlds out of old ones. Photography is invaluable for me when I'm creating a work of historical fiction. Photos help me conjure stories I could have never constructed without the help of someone else's eye. The eye of a person who is perhaps long dead, but whose perspective lives on through the pictures they took for a newspaper article, or maybe just to commemorate a personal occasion or family vacation. These snapshots can have so many lives, and continue to reinvent themselves through the eyes of any imaginer who happens upon them. And if you'd like to see some of the photos that I use as inspiration every day, follow me on social media. I post a lot, and I mean A LOT of old pictures. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victoriadougherty.author/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoria_dougherty/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicdougherty This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/a-picture-becomes-a-thousand-words/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/victoria-dougherty/support