On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
“The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road where my… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
