Trevor Paglen: From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist Paglen Trevor
Commemorative coins, patches, mugs and other ephemera from the shadowy world of US military aviation and aerospaceIn From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist, multidisciplinary artist…
Specifikacia Trevor Paglen: From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist Paglen Trevor
Commemorative coins, patches, mugs and other ephemera from the shadowy world of US military aviation and aerospaceIn From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist, multidisciplinary artist Trevor Paglen (born 1974) collaborates with Peter Merlin, a former NASA archivist, on this new artist's book featuring a photographic inventory of objects from the aerospace historian's archive of research culled from military bases such as Area 51.Featuring images of challenge coins, patches and commemorative mugs from within these bases, as well as debris recovered from the surrounding crash sites, the book presents both a social and technological investigation into the US government's secret aviation history from the atomic age to today's drone wreckage.The symbols and texts featured on these objects that celebrate covert missions range in character from