Great interview with Hey, Hot Shot! panelist and publisher of the Aperture Foundation’s book program Lesley A. Martin and photographer Trevor Paglen, who documents top secret government activities through photography. Paglen’s monograph Invisble will be released in Fall 2010 by Aperture. Can’t wait!
Often shot from a long distance, Paglen explains how the fuzziness of his images questions how we perceive and interpret images in our society using techniques from both the photography and the astronomy fields. Following the tradition of 19th century landscape photographers like Muybridge, he speaks about his series of spy satellites taken over pictorial western landscapes connecting the dots between both, as tools of discovery for unknown territories and geographical expansion. Paglen finally touches on the political performance as part of his photographic practice.
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