Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them

[lovuian]

BERKELEY, California -- For most people, photographing something that isn't there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen.

His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit -- despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don't exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum through September 14, is only a small selection from the 1,500 astrophotographs Paglen has taken thus far.

In taking these photos, Paglen is trying to draw a metaphorical connection between modern government secrecy and the doctrine of the Catholic Church in Galileo's time.

"What would it mean to find these secret moons in orbit around the earth in the same way that Galileo found these moons that shouldn't exist in orbit around Jupiter?" Paglen says.

Satellites are just the latest in Paglen's photography of supposedly nonexistent subjects. To date, he's snapped haunting images of various military sites in the Nevada deserts, "torture taxis" (private planes that whisk people off to secret prisons without judicial oversight) and uniform patches from various top-secret military programs.
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very cool pictures

Paglen's initial interest in the government's so-called "black projects" took shape while combing through U.S. Geological Survey archives of satellite prison photos in 2002. He noticed that many of the photo frames of prison sites were missing or, in some cases, heavily edited.
I still believe that it was a spy satellite that crashed in Peru and made the people sick ...the cover story was a meteor hit

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites?npu=1&mbid=yhp

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Intriguing and a little bit alarming

[lovuian]

2. yes 189 spy satellites how many do you need

there maybe more here than meets the eye like the Rods of god may have been put in place already

[Echo In Light]

3. Thanks for posting

[pleah]

4. K&R to keep this going.

Amazing.















"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot

[Algorem]

5. are any of them space stations,with people on them?

I heard John Lear,I think,on coasttocoastam.com saying the space shuttle supplies secret space stations.