Trevor Paglen’s Photographs of Secret Government Activity

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Trevor Paglen’s State Secrets

In his article “Prying Eyes,” in this week’s issue, Jonah Weiner writes about the artist Trevor Paglen, who uses specialized equipment to document …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/10/trevor-paglen.html#slide_ss_0=1

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.