Life is a series of THINGS THAT HAPPEN. These are some of those things.

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NASA Earth observation satellite — Trevor Paglen photographs classified surveillance infrastructure from public land
The things I photograph are real. They just don't appear in official pictures of the world.

— Trevor Paglen

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still making spiders at 98

She said: "I am a long-distance runner."

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An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Dorothea Lange — the gaze of documentary: what the camera is allowed to see

Photographs of places most Americans will never see. NSA facility. Nuclear waste storage. Playboy Mansion grotto.

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What we sent into the dark

The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.

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— Carl Sagan

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I paint with my back to the world.

Agnes Martin, Untitled
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

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