{"product_id":"voyagers-9780999265512","title":"Voyagers","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ice Plant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461822779666,"sku":"9780999265512","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b17014e8-ab3c-4558-80f9-06a3adb1d246.jpg?v=1730079998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/voyagers-9780999265512","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}