Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them


	Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them

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6-30-2008 4:59 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9cab53dd-6a9b-4a31-b977-c02789700869/DD583873-2DF1-4EDF-BAAD-D46C46E11EF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites" href="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><DIV id="embed_wide"><DIV id="pic"><A href="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites#"><IMG height="501" hspace="0" src="http://www.wired.com/images/index/2008/06/spy_630x.jpg" width="630" vspace="0" /></A> <DIV><A href="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites#"><IMG height="0" hspace="0" src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" width="0" vspace="0" /></A> </DIV><DIV id="caption">Artist Trevor Paglen's time-exposure photographs show the streaks of light left by classified satellites.<BR /><EM>Photo: Trevor Paglen</EM> <I></I></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/9B3FD5BD-1615-4DCD-9078-FC9FAEB75786" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><P>The nearly vertical streak in this image shows a satellite called Keyhole 12-3 crossing the sky near the constellation of Scorpio.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/B4543429-DCA3-4B92-9287-220985BE5CC8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><P>"Lacrosse/Onyx II Passing Through Draco (USA 69)" shows the transit of another surveillance satellite.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><P>BERKELEY, California -- For most people, photographing something that isn't there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><P>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. <CITE>The Other Night Sky</CITE>, <A href="http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/225">on display</A> 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. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites"><P>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. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DD583873-2DF1-4EDF-BAAD-D46C46E11EF5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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