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The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.
Taryn Simon
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Taryn Simon
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 4
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New York City
New York
Taryn M. Simon
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Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.
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Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.
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There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.
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I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.
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