A Catalog of American Things
Refract Journal
Volume 4: Document/ary

Featured in the new issue of Refract (the visual studies journal of the University of California, Santa Cruz), the ongoing work A Catalog of American Things borrows the notion of the encyclopedia—an “exhaustive” record of the world. The photographs serve as a record, as evidence of the present and the very recent past, as an act of preservation of what this place is made up of right now. Futernick says, “like an encyclopedia, A Catalog of American Things attempts to gather and organize information about what a world is made up of, but it is as much about what is left out.”

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