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Melissa Catanese

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Melissa Catanese: The Lottery
THE ICE PLANT/WITTY BOOKS

A photographic reverie on the anxieties of the human condition, from the author of Dive Dark Dream Slow

Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 11 color / 55 bw. | 8/15/2023 | Out of stock
$38.00



Melissa Catanese: The LotteryMelissa Catanese: The Lottery

Published by The Ice Plant/Witty Books.

A wild, insomniac cousin to her somnambulist classic Dive Dark Dream Slow, Pittsburgh-based Melissa Catanese’s (born 1979) The Lottery reads like a work of speculative fiction: a glimpse into an anxious human civilization suspended between uncertain futures and the aftermath of its distant and recent past. Seamlessly combining her own recent photographs with anonymous vernacular photos, press images and NASA archival imagery, Catanese’s intuitive editing reanimates the pictures’ dormant surfaces, evoking the mob mentality and tribalism of Shirley Jackson’s short story "The Lottery," as well as the cosmic indeterminacy at the heart of our unfolding present. Throughout the sequence, we see catastrophic forces punctuated by scenes of serenity, tenderness and fragility. Crowds gather to gawk, passively entertained by unseen horrors. Lone figures claw, swim and bend, haunted and creaturely, isolated and immersed in primordial landscapes. Brief fragments of text from Virginia Woolf hint at a glimmer of hope for regeneration.



PUBLISHER
The Ice Plant/Witty Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 11 color / 55 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 126   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9791280177247 TRADE
List Price: $38.00 CAD $55.00

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Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

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