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Taryn Simon
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Taryn Simon documents spaces that are integral to America’s
foundation, mythology and daily functioning, but remain inaccessible or unknown to a public audience. She has
photographed rarely seen sites from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature,
security and religion. This index examines subjects that, while provocative or controversial, are currently legal. The
work responds to a desire to discover unknown territories, to see everything.
Simon makes use of the annotated-photograph’s capacity to engage and inform the public. Transforming that which
is off-limits or under-the-radar into a visible and intelligible form, she confronts the divide between the privileged
access of the few and the limited access of the public. Photographed with a large format view camera (except when
prohibited), Simon’s 70 color plates form a seductive collection that reflects and reveals a national identity.
Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her
highly acclaimed and influential work, The Innocents, documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States
and investigates photography’s role in that process. Simon’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and
internationally, including: High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, New York; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; and Kunst-
Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Permanent collections include: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York. She works with Gagosian Gallery.
Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March to July, 2007.
Co-published with Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Taryn Simon
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
Edited by Althea Wasow
Foreword by Salman Rushdie
Essays by Elisabeth Sussman,
Christina Kukielski and Roland Dworkin
Book design by Joseph Logan
70 images, four color throughout
9.8 x 13.4 in. / 25 x 34 cm
Clothbound hardcover
$ 75.00 / £ 40.00 / € 60.00
ISBN: 978-3-86521-380-8
PostScript Bild
(9783865213808)
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