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Donovan Wylie: North Warning System
Donovan Wylie
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Description for Donovan Wylie: North Warning System
Hardcover. Part of the Tower Series, this is the third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, it examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. Num Pages: 40 pages, chiefly illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 299 x 236 x 10. Weight in Grams: 554.
North Warning System is Donovan Wylie’s third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. The development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada’s arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States to jointly construct a matrix of short and longrange radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant ... Read more
North Warning System is Donovan Wylie’s third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. The development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada’s arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States to jointly construct a matrix of short and longrange radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Steidl
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Place of Publication
Gottingen, Germany
ISBN
9783869307732
SKU
V9783869307732
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Ref
99-10
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