"North Warning System" is Donovan Wylie's third and final book of
photographs on the themes of vision and power in military
architecture, and draws a close to his "Tower Series." Surveying a
radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the
detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts
in remote regions. The 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 to jointly 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. In 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.
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