About the Book
Thirtyfour Black Sites is based on Ed Ruscha’s Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles (1967). Ruscha’s work documented the growing and changing infrastructure of a sprawling American city without a center. The aerial photographs of vast empty parking lots describe a system and pattern of daily culture and habit.
Similarly, Thirtyfour Black Sites reveals a vast infrastructure, but of a secret detention program with a chain of prisons owned, operated, and/or utilized by the CIA. The images make the abuses and locations less abstract while also analyzing the growth of secrecy, extrajudicial black programs, and the CIA as a covert paramilitary.
Similarly, Thirtyfour Black Sites reveals a vast infrastructure, but of a secret detention program with a chain of prisons owned, operated, and/or utilized by the CIA. The images make the abuses and locations less abstract while also analyzing the growth of secrecy, extrajudicial black programs, and the CIA as a covert paramilitary.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
# of Pages: 44 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781320582155
- Publish Date: Jun 30, 2015
- Language English
- Keywords ed ruscha, art books, art, cia, black, sites, torture, terror, 9/11, extraordinary, rendition, enhanced, interrogation, techniques, artist books, conceptual art
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