photography and its discontents

jetpacmagazine

download the pdf issue 01 –

and go see its author’s work. He did the Lost Karma Station posters. websitesarelovely.com

Scheduled for this Saturday, 5/22/10, at Vista Point overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

Ariel Goldberg, the Headlands

today … rain & fog will never end …

fogbank

fog, treeline

SFMOMA panel discussion “Is Photography Over?”

‘Photography’ for me,” [Trevor Paglen] wrote, “denotes a wide range of imaging practices … dialectically enmeshed with the construction of practical reality. … This includes everything from ‘art’ photography to iPhone snapshots, from MRI scans to the infrared eyes of CIA predator drones, and from surveillance cameras attached to facial-recognition software to minoritarian documentary practices from Rodney King to Abu Ghraib.”
Paglen is an artist, writer and an experimental geographer who says that “We can’t divorce imaging technologies from uses of power.” Reference is to Paul Virilio’s coinage of the term “sight machine” for the coalescence of imaging devices and their data that digital technology has permitted.

Secret OPs military patches, credit:NYT