Taryn Simon Biography

Taryn Simon takes pictures of areas of the American foundation inaccessible to its residents using a large organization camera and a knack for persuading her way into restricted areas. Taryn Simon sets out in search of America's dirty insider information in her book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. By gaining access to locations as diverse as a white tiger breeding facility, the JFK Airport isolation zone, premature birth facilities, and infection research labs, Simon demonstrates the elements of American establishment folklore and daily life that are essential but are out of the public's view or are challenging to understand. In her previous book, The Innocents, she photographed depictions of more than 80 wrongfully convicted death row inmates who were exonerated by DNA evidence and looked at the role photography had in the process. However, Simon's images go beyond simple documentation. They beat with beautiful mystery while bursting with dazzling light that disturbs the atmosphere and has adverse effects. A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, a piece by Taryn that had its debuts at the Tate Modern in London and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2011, will be on display at the MoMA in New York from May 2 through September 3, 2012.

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