de Sam Falls
Large Hangars and Fuel Storage
Tonopah Test Range, NV
Distance ~ 18 miles
10:44 a.m.
de Limit Telephotography by Trevor Paglen
A number of classified military bases and installations are located in some of the remotest parts of the United States, hidden deep in western deserts and buffered by dozens of miles of restricted land. Many of these sites are so remote, in fact, that there is nowhere on Earth where a civilian might be able to see them with an unaided eye. In order to produce images of these remote and hidden landscapes, therefore, some unorthodox viewing and imaging techniques are required.
Limit-telephotography involves photographing landscapes that cannot be seen with the unaided eye. The technique employs high powered telescopes whose focal lengths range between 1300mm and 7000mm. At this level of magnification, hidden aspects of the landscape become apparent.
This is what I am trying to explain when I show people the pictures I take. When you have been mourning for most of your life and suddenly realize that nothing is lost, you want to share that with people, I think.
"So what is so different that you guys are going to do as photographers that locals are doing. Other than taking their job opportunities?"
— Un comentario en el foro de Lightstalkers, sobre los fotorreporteros que viajan a Haití para cubir el desastre.
Class Time with Garry Winogrand
Aprendí esto:
1. Una foto no puede contar una historia.
2. Las buenas fotografías son las que están a punto de fracasar.
"Associating a work of art with meaningless bullshit is a form of disrespect."
— Daily Meh hablando del artspeak.
