Public Domain (Issue 6)

With each issue of Public Domain, a distinct voice is invited to select a sequence of images culled from the public domain. The expansion of accessible grants, broadband internet, and affordable scanning technology has made massive caches of otherwise inaccessible material available, formerly sitting silently in institutions around the world. With this publication, these archives are willfully reanimated by putting their holdings back into circulation.

“Crush” is the colloquial term for the mass destruction of illicit goods seized by authorities. For the sixth issue of Public Domain, Canal Street Research Association assembles documents tracing the lineage of the crush: impressive heaps, brutal police actions, botched publicity stunts, corporate rituals of destruction, and the political spectacle of smashing goods. The issue takes as its starting point an infamous—yet now largely forgotten—crush of bootleg Fendi bags confiscated on Canal Street.

Includes an essay by Canal Street Research Association.

Details

98 pages
 11" x 8.5"