Quote

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

Trevor Paglen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Trevor Paglen
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
Artist
Geographer
Photographer
Maryland
United States
Truth
Bridges
Also
Meant
Photographing
Kind
Photography
Presumption
Something
Evidence
Brooklyn
Would
Dangerous
Arrested
Time
Changed
Bridge
People
Politics
Reveal
Getting
Aggressive

More quotes by Trevor Paglen

Image
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.
Trevor Paglen
Image
I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
Trevor Paglen
Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.
Trevor Paglen
Image
Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.
Trevor Paglen
Image
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.
Trevor Paglen