Trevor Paglen

1974

Paglen is the author of three books including Torture Taxi, (co-authored with investigative journalist Adam Clay Thompson) which was the first book to comprehensively describe the Central Intelligence Agency"s extraordinary rendition program, and I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Maine, which is a look at the world of black projects through unit patches and memorabilia created for top-secret programs. Paglen"s book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon"s Secret World is a broader look at secrecy in the United States. Released in 2012, The Last Pictures is a collection of 100 images to be placed on permanent media and launched into space on EchoStar XVI, as a repository available for future civilizations (alien or human) to find. Paglen has shown photography and other visual works at numerous museums and galleries including MassMoca, and Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bellwether Gallery in New New York and Lighthouse in Brighton. He was an Eyebeam Commissioned Artist in 2007. His visual work such as his "Limit Telephotography" and "The Other Night Sky" series has received widespread attention for both his technical innovations and for his conceptual project that involves simultaneously making and negating documentary-style truth-claims. He is represented by the New York gallery Metro Pictures. The 2009 book: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism is largely inspired by Paglen"s work.

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He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Doctor of Philosophy in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher

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Paglen is the author of three books including Torture Taxi, (co-authored with investigative journalist Adam Clay Thompson) which was the first book to comprehensively describe the Central Intelligence Agency"s extraordinary rendition program, and I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Maine, which is a look at the world of black projects through unit patches and memorabilia created for top-secret programs. Paglen"s book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon"s Secret World is a broader look at secrecy in the United States. Released in 2012, The Last Pictures is a collection of 100 images to be placed on permanent media and launched into space on EchoStar XVI, as a repository available for future civilizations (alien or human) to find.

Paglen has shown photography and other visual works at numerous museums and galleries including MassMoca, and Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bellwether Gallery in New New York and Lighthouse in Brighton.

He was an Eyebeam Commissioned Artist in 2007. His visual work such as his "Limit Telephotography" and "The Other Night Sky" series has received widespread attention for both his technical innovations and for his conceptual project that involves simultaneously making and negating documentary-style truth-claims.

He is represented by the New York gallery Metro Pictures. The 2009 book: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism is largely inspired by Paglen"s work.

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Trevor Paglen is credited with coining the term "" to describe practices coupling experimental cultural production and art-making with ideas from critical human geography about the production of space, materialism, and praxis.

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