Trevor Paglen’s Photographs of Secret Government Activity

Link: Slide Show: Trevor Paglen’s Photographs of Secret Government Activity : The New Yorker

A view of the Tonopah Test Range from eighteen miles away, this image is part of Paglen’s “Limit Telephotography” series, in which he uses telescopes typically employed in astrophotography in order to shoot far-off places. The blur effect is a result of dust and convection waves rising off the desert floor.