{"product_id":"jon-horvath-this-is-bliss","title":"Jon Horvath: This is Bliss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA story of shattered expectations and faltered dreams, told through the photographs of a struggling roadside town called Bliss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Is Bliss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a transmedia narrative project investigating the vanishing roadside geography and culture of a rural Idaho town named Bliss. The project considers how mythologies of place and happiness collide, and are frequently confounded, in a location with a complex narrative of booms and busts that reflects the complicated history of American Idealism and Manifest Destiny. All that remains in Bliss is two gas stations, a school, a church, a diner, and two saloons to service its 300 current residents. Through a thorough look at the contemporary landscape and its residents, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Is Bliss\u003c\/span\u003e contrasts romantic visions of the American West with its contemporary reality and considers how the heights of idealism are envisioned on both a personal and cultural level.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"A study of dichotomies, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Is Bliss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e presents what once illuminated the western landscape with splendor boiled down to its essence, a husk of its former self. There, within a setting draped in bleakness and melancholy, Horvath uncovers the warmth of our humanity.” - Ariel Shanberg, Essay \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Idea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555578777657,"sku":"210000002196","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/41b-3echtzl.jpg?v=1790279228","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/jon-horvath-this-is-bliss","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}