{"product_id":"invisible-1st-ed-1st-printing-covert-operations-and-classified-landscapes","title":"Invisible (1st Ed., 1st Printing): Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height:280px\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInvisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Trevor Paglen's long-awaited first photographic monograph. Social scientist, artist, writer and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies--the \"black world\"--for the last eight years, publishing, speaking and making astonishing photographs. As an artist, Paglen is interested in the idea of photography as truth-telling, but his pictures often stop short of traditional ideas of documentation. In the series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLimit Telephotography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, for example, he employs high-end optical systems to photograph top-secret governmental sites; and in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Other Night Sky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he uses the data of amateur satellite watchers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit. In other works Paglen transforms documents such as passports, flight data and aliases of CIA operatives into art objects. Rebecca Solnit contributes a searing essay that traces this history of clandestine military activity on the American landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 0; display: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Aperture Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50278335480093,"sku":"9781597111300","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781597111300.jpg?v=1755707885","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/invisible-1st-ed-1st-printing-covert-operations-and-classified-landscapes","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}