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Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

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It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.

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Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

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To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.

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Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition.

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Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.

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Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.

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In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of thing.

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If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.

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The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as NASA, but its existence was secret until 1992.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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