{"product_id":"voyagers-von-undefined-1","title":"Voyagers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA charming collection of vintage photographs of readers lost in thought\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere do our minds go when we read books, magazines and letters? Do we seek an escape, a portal to another world? A secret, a truth, a pleasant distraction? \u003ci\u003eVoyagers\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Melissa Catanese (author of \u003ci\u003eDive Dark Dream Slow\u003c\/i\u003e), consists almost entirely of anonymous black-and-white snapshots of people in various postures of reading in living rooms, on beds, at the beach, eating breakfast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can't see what these readers are thinking, but Catanese occasionally breaks the hypnotic typological rhythm to reveal a new photographic element--a pyramid, a starry night, sunlight blindingly glowing through a window--giving us brief glimpses of the readers' potential narrative journeys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wordless book with the size and feel of a vintage paperback found at a flea market, \u003ci\u003eVoyagers\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of the power and intimacy of our relationship to reading devices, and evokes an exotic nostalgia for our recent predigital culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with Catanese's prior books (\u003ci\u003eDive Dark Dream Slow\u003c\/i\u003e [2012], \u003ci\u003eHells Hollow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFallen Monarch\u003c\/i\u003e [2016]), the images were judiciously selected from the collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular photographs from the early to mid-20th century. Gathered from flea markets, dealers and eBay, these images have been acquired, exhibited and included in a range of major museum publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780999265512\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780999265512","offer_id":57408692158789,"sku":"9780999265512","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/8cd0d1fe-324c-472f-9493-b844340019dd.jpg?v=1780027626","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/voyagers-von-undefined-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}