Invisible Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes Invisible Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes is Trevor Paglen s long awaited first photographic monograph Social scientist artist writer and provocateur Paglen has been exploring the secre
Invisible Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes is Trevor Paglen s long awaited first photographic monograph Social scientist, artist, writer and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S military and intelligence agencies the black world for the last eight years, publishing, speaking and making astonishing photographs As an artiInvisible Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes is Trevor Paglen s long awaited first photographic monograph Social scientist, artist, writer and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S military and intelligence agencies the black world for the last eight years, publishing, speaking and making astonishing photographs As an artist, Paglen is interested in the idea of photography as truth telling, but his pictures often stop short of traditional ideas of documentation In the series Limit Telephotography, for example, he employs high end optical systems to photograph top secret governmental sites and in The Other Night Sky, he uses the data of amateur satellite watchers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in Earth s orbit In other works Paglen transforms documents such as passports, flight data and aliases of CIA operatives into art objects Rebecca Solnit contributes a searing essay that traces this history of clandestine military activity on the American landscape.
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Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us.Paglen s visual work has been exhibited at Transmediale Festival, Berlin The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams the 2008 Taipei Biennial the Istanbul Biennial 2009, and has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture, and Art Forum.Paglen has received grants and commissions from Rhizome, Art Matters, Artadia, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.Paglen is the author of three books His first book, Torture Taxi On the Trail of the CIA s Rendition Flights co authored with AC Thompson Melville House, 2006 was the first book to systematically describe the CIA s extraordinary rendition program His second book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me Melville House, 2007 an examination of the visual culture of black military programs, was published in Spring 2008 His third book, Blank Spots on a Map, was published by Dutton Penguin in early 2009 In spring 2010, Aperture will publish a book of his visual work.Paglen holds a B.A from UC Berkeley, an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D in Geography from UC Berkeley.Paglen lives and works in Oakland, CA and New York City.