Trevor Paglen

NSA Surveillance Base, Egelsbach, Germany

Maker

Trevor Paglen (American, b. 1974)

Title

NSA Surveillance Base, Egelsbach, Germany

Year

2015

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 91.4 x 139.7 cm (36 x 55 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, in ink, on Metro Pictures label on verso of frame.

Identification

Edition

Edition 1 of 5

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2015.117

Type

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

A lot of what we think about as classical Western landscape photography was paid for by the military or by what was then called the Department of War, as part of what they called reconnaissance surveys.

My intention is to expand the visual vocabulary we use to “see” the U.S. intelligence community. Although the organizing logic of our nation’s surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world. . . . If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America’s vast intelligence infrastructure. -Trevor Paglen

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Trevor Paglen (American, b. 1974)
NSA Surveillance Base, Egelsbach, Germany, 2015
Chromogenic color print
Image: 91.4 x 139.7 cm (36 x 55 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 2015.117

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