Object Details
- Artist
- Trevor Paglen, born Camp Springs, MD 1974
- Gallery Label
- Trevor Paglen focuses his lens on the U.S. surveillance agencies that until recently have been little known to the American public. In response to former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's leak of classified documents detailing the National Security Agency's reconnaissance programs, Paglen rented a helicopter to photograph the headquarters of three large intelligence agencies, then released the images into the public domain.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum
- Copyright
- © 2014, Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures.
- 2014
- Object number
- 2014.57A-C
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography
- Medium
- chromogenic prints
- Dimensions
- each image: 18 × 27 in. (45.7 × 68.6 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\time\night
- Architecture Exterior\civic\federal building
- Landscape\Maryland\Ft. Meade
- Landscape\Virginia\Chantilly
- Landscape\Virginia\Springfield
- Record ID
- saam_2014.57A-C
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7db5f55f2-f661-4a7c-b5c5-3560e897cddf
