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KEYHOLE IMPROVED CRYSTAL From Glacier Point (Optical Reconnaissance Satellite; USA 186), 2008
KEYHOLE IMPROVED CRYSTAL From Glacier Point (Optical Reconnaissance Satellite; USA 186)references Ansel Adams (1902-1984), who photographed the site in 1947. Adams photographed Yosemite as a metaphor of nature. In Paglen's photograph, the night sky is clear but has been made ominous by its revelation. Its subject is a still-classified reconnaissance satellite that was exposed in a leaked congressional budget report of the National Intelligence Program |