Description
A researcher and a photographer, Trevor Paglen has been dubbed an investigative artist. His works are the fruit of painstaking research. Following his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, he gained a Ph.D. in Geography from the renowned U.C. Berkeley. His work is exhibited on a regular basis, and in 2010 was even shown at the New Museum in New York and at Tate Modern in London.
Trevor Paglen's oeuvre fuses a creative concept with a journalistic and scientific approach. He visits libraries and archives and explores deserts, outer space and other isolated locations to uncover highly classified information and the hidden infrastructure of the army, secret service or prison system. Using highly specialized equipment, Paglen is able to photograph these shielded facilities that are so far away as to be virtually invisible to the human eye. His images show the original expanses of nature and the captivating interplay of land, water and sky. Digital processing lends a painterly touch to his photographs. His work calls to mind the atmospheric panoramas of J.M.W. Turner and the great American photographers Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Ansel Adams, whose photographs of the Wild West are now part of the classical canon.
Trevor Paglen's art addresses the issues of our time, yet is neither patronizing nor inflammatory. He reveals what the powers-that-be are concealing from us and seeks to hone our awareness.
Trevor Paglen lives and works in New York.Details
- Work Date:
- 2014
- Location:
- UBS Zurich, Paradeplatz
- Dimensions:
- 122 x 163 cm
- Medium:
- Photography