Tag: Trevor Paglen

  • Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns – LightBox

    Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns – LightBox

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Carter curated a presentation of images from artists such as Trevor Paglen and David Taylor, who use deep investigative research methods to inform their work — Paglen, for example, often finds the names of classified military programs by searching for government job…

  • Trevor Paglen’s Photographs of Secret Government Activity

    Trevor Paglen’s Photographs of Secret Government Activity

    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…

  • The Last Pictures Travel to Space by Trevor Paglen

    The Last Pictures Travel to Space by Trevor Paglen

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/19/the-last-pictures-travel-to-space-by-trevor-paglen/#1 Artist Trevor Paglen is fascinated by the notion that these spacecraft will be the most enduring relics of human civilization. When invited by the public art organization Creative Time to make a project about space, he proposed to somehow send up…