"Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography and Media of Reconnaissance"
Hanna Rose Shell MIT

"This talk traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But it is in fact much more--a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in natural and military environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention."