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The Last Pictures
Trevor Paglen
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Description for The Last Pictures
Hardback. This book chronicles a project intended to explain to someone--at some point in the distant future--what happened to the people who built derelict spacecraft. Artist/geographer Paglen spent four years interviewing scientists and others about the profound contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Num Pages: 208 pages, 114 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 708. 208 pages, illustrations. This book chronicles a project intended to explain to someone--at some point in the distant future--what happened to the people who built derelict spacecraft. Artist/geographer Paglen spent four years interviewing scientists and others about the profound contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 238 x 203 x 17. Weight: 700.
Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last Pictures, co-published by Creative Time Books, is rooted in the premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become ... Read more
Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last Pictures, co-published by Creative Time Books, is rooted in the premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520275003
SKU
V9780520275003
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About Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an internationally recognized artist, writer, and scholar working across multiple disciplines in a variety of media. Among his books are Blank Spots on the Map, Torture Taxi, and I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me. His art is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Pictures
"This is not just a publicist-driven fancy... [Paglen's images are] aesthetic and allegorical... A unique tale of human history." Wallpaper "The images are wondrous, paradoxical, and awe-inspiring."
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