Image

Trevor Paglen

NSA Surveillance Base, Egelsbach, Germany, 2015

Description

Maker

Title

NSA Surveillance Base, Egelsbach, Germany

Year

2015

Medium

Chromogenic color print

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

Type

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2015.117

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

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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