Thursday, September 20, 2012

THE LAST PICTURES


The New York Public Library
Main Branch
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
 Bryant Park Watched over by Gertrude Stein
.
Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen,
Filmmaker Werner Herzog, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tracy K. Smith
 Presented a conversation about cultural artifacts, space exploration, the legacy of human civilization,
and speculations upon our possible future.
"The Last Pictures"
by Trevor Paglen
 (Images I chose at random)
 Nagoya Public Aquarium
Weightlessness
Fingerprints on the left-on the right
Inked Handprint and contract
Left-Air France Concord
Right-Sand dunes Carson desert Nevada
 Left-Policeman Nepal
Right-Babylonian Math tablet YBC 4713
 Left-Grinell Glacier Montana 1940
Right-Grinell Glacier Montana 2006
Left-Dandelion
Right-Genetically modified Fruit Fly
 But you can choose for yourself
HERE 
A golden disc of all 100 images
will be launched into outer space from Kazakhstan
attached to the exterior of communications satellite
Earthrise
read more
HERE
and
HERE
 Telescopes were provided
for viewing the night sky by the
What I Saw
Albirio

When I came home, this Neal Young lyric was playing
like a loop in my head



2 comments:

deanna7trees said...

i have spent many hours in that library.

Peggy said...

Michelle, I can't say why, but I didn't know about this. It has the feeling of a sacred rite and I'm so glad you got to attend the program. xx