Trevor Paglen

Altman Siegel Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Trevor Paglen. This will be Paglen’s debut exhibition with the gallery and will feature selections of photographs from the series Limit Telephotography, The Other Night Sky and Symbology.

In the tradition of the great photographers of the West, Carelton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge and Timothy O’Sullivan, Trevor Paglen is both a landscape photographer and an explorer.  His subject is most often landscapes of secrecy from classified air bases in the Great Basin, to clandestine space-craft in Earth’s orbit.  Paglen’s practice of surveying and photographing undisclosed military operations is a contemporary iteration of the frontier photographers' tradition of documenting previously unknown territory.  His photographs capture the ancient grandeur of the American west and the infinite beauty of the universe, and reveal within them the high-tech, man-made omnipresence of the American state.