Photography Quotes by Trevor Paglen

11 Photography quotes by Trevor Paglen

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Trevor Paglen’s short remarks hint at his investigative, often hidden‑subject focus, giving a quick glimpse into his critical visual inquiry.

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To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.

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To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.…

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Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

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On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I…

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Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field…

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Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems…

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For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also…

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Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of…

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Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make…

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Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity…

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'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've…

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I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

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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…

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Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

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I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.

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Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.

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Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.

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Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are…

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Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

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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.

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Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

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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.…

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