{"product_id":"voyagers","title":"Books: Voyagers by Melissa Cantanese","description":"\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? Voyagers, edited by Melissa Catanese (author of Dive Dark Dream Slow), consists almost entirely of anonymous black \u0026amp; white snapshots of people in various postures of reading — in living rooms, on beds, at the beach, eating breakfast. We 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 glowing through a window — giving us brief glimpses of the readers’ potential narrative journeys. A wordless book with the size and feel of a vintage paperback found at a flea market, Voyagers reminds us of the power and intimacy of our relationship to ‘reading devices,’ and evokes an exotic nostalgia for our recent pre-digital culture. As with Catanese’s prior books, 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-twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Cucina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50634863018295,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3630\/6999\/files\/original_6ad6f202-2161-4dfa-a20a-e2c7e128c61d.jpg?v=1749740720","url":"https:\/\/bellacucina.com\/products\/voyagers","provider":"Bella Cucina","version":"1.0","type":"link"}