The sky in Trevor Paglen’s Untitled (Reaper Drone) is like any other: powder blues give way to fainter corals, a cloud of white streaks across the frame. What the photograph conceals though, is a Reaper Drone, an unmanned aerial vehicle. The print, one of more than 100 works in the upcoming Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition, Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen, is as sanguine as it is surreptitious, inviting viewers to question the very essence of surveillance and to ask themselves whethe…
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