Trevor Paglen, 2006, 30 x 36 inches, photograph.
This piece is entitled "Control Tower". It was shot in Cactus Flat, NV at 11:55 a.m. at a distance of 20 miles. The reason for this extremely long distance is that this is a classified military site--Paglen's main source of images/inspiration for his artwork. The photograph was taken using "limit telephotography which combines telephoto lenses and equipment designed for outer space photography. Paglen is interested not in landscapes, but in the uses and abuses of land as produced by human beings through social and economic relations.
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