Description
Book SynopsisA charming collection of vintage photographs of readers lost in thought
Where 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-and-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 elementa pyramid, a starry night, sunlight blindingly glowing through a windowgiving 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 e
Trade Review
Reading can be an escape from reality, but it can also be an engagement with it; a revelatory practice. Reading can lead to moments of introspection, interconnection, and empathy. -- Lisa McCarty * Lenscratch *
There is a certain serenity that descends while flipping through the pages in Melissa Catanese’s book of pictures of people reading books. It’s quite the little treasure. * MetroSource *
Their bodies are left behind, vulnerable to our gaze, while their minds travel to places we cannot imagine. * Paris Review *
