Trevor Paglen
From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist
From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist is an artist book that features new photographs and text by Trevor Paglen centered on the archive of Peter Merlin—a historian, technical writer, and leading expert on classified aircraft. Guided by the idea that “something always remains,” Merlin, a former NASA archivist, has amassed a vast collection of flight wreckage, dossiers, and memorabilia—objects that are sometimes the only remnants of covert government operations. Merlin’s colle…