Trevor Paglen at the Hammer Museum
Photo by Trevor Paglen, courtesy the artist
Social scientist, artist, writer, and provocateur Trevor 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 mysterious, compelling pictures often stop short of traditional ideas of documentation. Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes is Paglen’s long-awaited first photographic monograph, published by Aperture.
Trevor Paglen (born in Maryland, 1974) received a PhD in geography, as well as his BA, from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, he is represented by Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany. He lives and works in New York and Oakland, California.
Artist lecture
on Tuesday, February 15, 7pm
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Click here to purchase Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes, Trevor Paglen book.
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