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Voyagers

Title
Voyagers / [edited by] Melissa Catanese.
Publication
  • Los Angeles : The Ice Plant, 2018.
  • D.A.P.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Catanese, Melissa
  • Distributed Art Publishers, distributor.
  • Ice Plant (Publisher), publisher.
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits; 19 cm
Summary
'Voyagers' 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 element - a pyramid, a starry night, sunlight blindingly 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 predigital culture. As with Catanese's prior books (Dive Dark Dream Slow [2012], Hells Hollow, Fallen Monarch [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.
Subject
  • Cohen, Peter J. (Photograph collector) > Photograph collections
  • Portrait photography
  • Books and reading > Pictorial works
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Vernacular photography
  • Photography > Private collections
  • Artists' books
  • Books and reading
  • Photograph collections
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial works.
  • Photobooks.
Note
  • "©2018 Melissa Catanese and The Ice Plant"--Colophon.
  • "Edit & concept by Melissa Catanese. Photographs from the collection of Peter J. Cohen."--Colophon.
Call Number
JQC 19-50
ISBN
  • 9780999265512
  • 0999265512
OCLC
1050733509
Title
Voyagers / [edited by] Melissa Catanese.
Publisher
Los Angeles : The Ice Plant, 2018.
Distributor
D.A.P.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Catanese, Melissa, editor.
Distributed Art Publishers, distributor.
Ice Plant (Publisher), publisher.
Research Call Number
JQC 19-50
MEMZ (Catanese) 20-2719
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