Paglen Trevor, The Last Pictures, Creative Time Books (New York) & University of California Press (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London), 2012

This book documents Trevor Paglen's project of the same name that consisted of selecting one hundred images as a visual record of our contemporary historical moment, etching them on a silicon wafer encapsulated into a gold shell and put aboard the communication satellite EchoStar XVI launched into a geosynchronous orbit in 2012. The Last Pictures, a time capsule, is supposed to be the longer(ever?) lasting cultural objet-artifacts produced by humans.

http://creativetime.org/projects/the-last-pictures/