Trevor Paglen je umelec a spisovateľ, ktorého tvorba zámerne stiera hranice medzi spoločenskými vedy, súčasným umením a žurnalistikou. Prostredníctvom starostlivo spracovaných výskumov vytvára neobvyklé, ale prístupné spôsoby, ako vnímať a interpretovať svet okolo nás. Jeho vizuálne diela a publikácie skúmajú skryté systémy moci a vizuálne kultúry, ktoré formujú naše chápanie reality. Paglenove práce vyzývajú divákov, aby sa kriticky zamysleli nad tým, ako vidíme a interpretujeme svet, a odhaľujú neviditeľné aspekty moderného života.
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
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.
A geography scholar and artist recounts his research into ungoverned regions of the world where the military conducts some of its most clandestine operations, in an account that includes coverage of his investigation into a covert site in Nevada near where a construction worker was poisoned by toxic chemicals. 25,000 first printing.
Chefs d'uvre L'exposition d'ouverture du centre Pompidou-Metz.