"In this age, like all ages, when the problem of the perpetuation of a race or class and the destruction of its enemies, is that all-absorbing motive of civilized society, it seems irrelevant and wasteful still to create works whose only inspirations are individual human emotion and desire".
Man Ray The Age of Light
Lee Miller, a model for Man Ray and a photojournalist for Vogue during WWII, expresses this mantra with her photo taken in Hitler's bathtub.
Now in the 21st century surrealism takes on a true surrealist quality with the photo project by Trevor Paglen:The Last Pictures" contains 100 images, chosen by him and a group of colleagues, to be etched on a silicon disc and put into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator, where it will join man-made satellites, both active and derelict, in an essentially friction-free state for, potentially, the next 4 1/2 billion years. The project, commissioned and presented by New York's Creative Time, Paglen writes, "was inspired by the idea that we should take communications satellites seriously as the cultural and material ruins of the late 20th and early twenty-first centuries."
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