MANI - (polittico)

Basically it is up to us to seek things out, to understand, to read the hand that turns the pages, seeing as the page is hardly present, just as the eyes of the unknown reader do not appear.
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While for communication scholars it is true that the thousand year transition from oral culture to writing, and from there to the printed book, represents a dramatic journey towards solitude, in so far as a person absorbed in a book is apparently alone, it is also true that the solitude of the faceless travellers in these photographs acquires the density of freedom, something unthinkable for the anonymous man who needs the multitude to exist with all his prejudices.
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A person reading on the train or in the tube is, all things considered, a person socialising with the words written by other people in recent or distant times.