Taryn Simon

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Ronald Dworkin, Tina Kukielski, Elisabeth Sussman , Salman Rushdie

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English

Hatje Cantz
17 June 2013

Individual photographers; Photographs: collections

""I am always immensely grateful to people who do impossible things on my behalf and bring back the picture. It means I don't have to do it, but at least I know what it looks like."" This is what Salman Rushdie wrote about artist Taryn Simon in his essay in this volume. And, in fact, in her famous series of works, which she finished in 2007, Simon (
*1975) does indeed show the hidden, the forbidden and inaccessible within American borders. She reveals what lies concealed beneath the surface of America's mythology and daily functioning. After conducting painstaking negotiations, she uses her large-format camera to capture what is usually only reserved for the initiated: containers of radioactive nuclear waste, the CIA's art collection, the outdoor facility of a ""body farm,"" or the inside of a hibernating bear's cave. The artist annotates each of her almost sixty pictures with descriptive texts highlighting the complexities of both her subjects and the relationship between text and image.

Text by: Ronald Dworkin, Tina Kukielski, Elisabeth Sussman, Salman Rushdie, MS Elisabeth Sussman
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 345mm, Width: 262mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.650kg
ISBN: 9783775735063
ISBN 10: 3775735062
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 17 June 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

The cover of Taryn Simon's newly reprinted 2008 monograph, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, is unlikely to catch any casual viewer's eye. Bound in nondescript gray cloth, with its title inscribed in gold lettering over a black background, the book looks like a volume of an encyclopedia or a legal periodical. But inside you'll find something far less anodyne: a mesmerizing, carefully composed series of photographs whose subjects range from decomposing corpses and quarantined parrots to NASA guesthouses and control rooms of nuclear submarines.--Jessica Loudis BOOKFORUM (07/01/2013)