Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon ( born 1975 in New York) is an American artist. She works with the means of photography and the cinematic reportage. She is a graduate of Brown University and holder of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her photographs are usually with great attention to detail and Scanned using comprehensive equipment scenes. She wants to distinguish so targeted by the journalistic snapshot.

Works

In the summer of 2000, Simon was commissioned by the New York Times Magazine to photograph falsely convicted men who escaped the death penalty. The realization of the project The Innocents was organized by the Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography - the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship - supported.

She became famous with her book, The Innocents. For this, Simon has photographed erroneously sentenced to death in the United States to the alleged crime scene. This exhibition was, inter alia, the Haus der Kunst (Munich) and the Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin also shown in Germany.

In her new exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Taryn Simon photographs shows tabooed places that are closely connected with the settlement, the mythology of America and everyday life in the United States: for the public at present, hidden from view, or simply unknown. Simon tries in their work, to explore unknown regions, to show everything.

The 60 photographs comprehensive, created between 2004 and 2007 plant unit An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and was seen there on 29 September 2007 to 20 January 2008.

Quote

"I have made ​​a list with all the secret, little-known places I want to see in person.

I think I 'm more anxious than most people. It is the fear that drives me. I'm constantly on my own limits, forcing me to do things, although I'm not happy with it. "

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2013/14: Museum Folkwang, Essen, There Are Some Who Are in Darkness Works from the Olbricht Collection, Selected by the Artist
  • 2011 New National Gallery, Berlin, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters
  • 2010 Lever House Art Collection, New York
  • 2010 Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
  • 2008 Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008 Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
  • 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • 2006 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
  • 2005 Museum of Contemporary Photography ( MoCP ), Chicago
  • 2004 Bergen Art Hall, Norway
  • 2004 Gagosian Gallery Madison, New York
  • 2004 Kunsthalle Nikolaj, Copenhagen

Prizes and awards

  • 2011 Author Book Award, Rencontres d' Arles, Provence, France
  • 2010 Discovery Award, Rencontres d' Arles, Provence, France
  • 2009 German Börse Photography Prize Finalist
  • 2008 International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Publication, New York
  • 2008 Silver Medal Lead Award, Germany
  • 2007 KLM Paul Huf Award, FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam
  • 2001 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Photography, New York
  • 1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Photography, Columbia University, New York
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