Chefs-d'œuvre ?
- 570 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Chefs d'uvre L'exposition d'ouverture du centre Pompidou-Metz.
Trevor Paglen Book order
Trevor Paglen is an artist and writer whose work deliberately blurs the lines between social science, contemporary art, and journalism. Through meticulously researched explorations, Paglen constructs unfamiliar yet accessible ways of seeing and interpreting the world around us. His visual works and publications investigate hidden systems of power and the visual cultures that shape our understanding of reality. Paglen's work challenges viewers to critically consider how we see and interpret the world, revealing the unseen aspects of modern life.
- 2010
- 2010
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
The 70 military shoulder patches presented in this book reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. The patches are precisely photographed, hinting at a world about which little is known
- 2010
Invisible
- 159 pages
- 6 hours of reading
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 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.
