Introduction
Volume documents bound periodicals and journals in public libraries. A number of titles photographed for the project have been destroyed. Many have been replaced by online counterparts. Hunting for and photographing these objects is central to the creative process. The books and words are not touched, artificially lit, or manipulated – rather created by the librarian, found in the stacks, and positioned by the last anonymous reader. The focus is on simple, provocative titles that transcend the spines on which they appear to create conceptual, language-based, anthropological works.