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Title: North Warning System
Description: Steidl. Cloth. Pp: 40. North Warning System is Donovan Wylie`s third and final book of photographs on the theme of vision and power in military architecture and draws a close to The Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, the photographer examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions.nnThe development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada`s arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States jointly to construct a matrix of short and long-range radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant Early Warning Line, these stations provided electronic observation and surveillance capability across Canada`s northern frontier throughout the Cold War. nnIn the 1990s, these stations were upgraded to form the North Warning System (NWS) which is increasingly active " as international maritime traffic develops throughout the north, so does military presence. In North Warning System, whiteness takes on the quality of a blank canvas, a metaphor for the sweep of history. ISBN: 9783869307732. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Keywords: 9783869307732
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Title: North Warning System
Description: Steidl. Cloth. Pp: 40. North Warning System is Donovan Wylie`s third and final book of photographs on the theme of vision and power in military architecture and draws a close to The Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, the photographer examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions.nnThe development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada`s arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States jointly to construct a matrix of short and long-range radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant Early Warning Line, these stations provided electronic observation and surveillance capability across Canada`s northern frontier throughout the Cold War. nnIn the 1990s, these stations were upgraded to form the North Warning System (NWS) which is increasingly active " as international maritime traffic develops throughout the north, so does military presence. In North Warning System, whiteness takes on the quality of a blank canvas, a metaphor for the sweep of history. ISBN: 9783869307732. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Keywords: 9783869307732
Price: EUR 8.00 = appr. US$ 8.69 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1829373
- Book number: 1829373
See more books from our catalog: Fotografie