{"product_id":"trevor-paglen-sites-unseen","title":"Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrevor Paglen is an American artist  geographer  and author. What I want from art  says Paglen  is to help see the historical moment we live in. His photographs make visible things were not meant to see; he regards this invisibility as emblematic of that moment. Looking toward the earth  sea  or sky as earlier artists have  Paglen captures the same horizon seen by Turner in the nineteenth century or by Ansel Adams in the twentieth. Only in Paglens images  a drone or classified communications satellite is also visible. For me  Paglen observes  seeing the drone in the twenty-first century is a bit like Turner seeing the train in the nineteenth century. Turner was less interested in the technology than its effects on perception  by its ability to accelerate human motion. Paglen is interested in our evolving perception in space. Standing in the Western landscape where Adams worked  Paglen photographs the drone as it photographs him. His images suggest that our conceptions of space and visuality are undergoing radical change; the physical limits of vision are no longer a reliable measure of what is visible to (often mechanical) others.Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen is the first major career survey for the artist in the United States. it presents Paglens key photographic series: Limit Telephotography; Tapped Underwater Cables and Cable Landing Sites; and The Other Night Sky and Untitled (Drones). Other works included are Code Names  NSA Triptych  89 Landscapes  Trinity Cube  Autonomy Cube  and The Fence. The volume includes an essay by curator John Jacob; an essay by Luke Skrebowski of the University of Manchester; and a conversation between the artist and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Katherine Crawford.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946455593013,"sku":"ByrdShop_1911282336","price":130.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781911282334.jpg?v=1769950071","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/trevor-paglen-sites-unseen","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}