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

For our fourth issue, artist Camille Clair, in the months following her abrupt move to Vienna, took solace in the Augustinian Reading Room of the Austrian National Bibliothek, perusing rare books, culling images from the digital archive, and writing daily logs. The collection of notes and images that result from Camille’s time spent with “Augustine” tease the boundary between absence and presence, sacred and mundane.

62 pages.

8.5 x 11 in.