Taryn Simon

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Stella McCartney launches A-Z sustainability manifesto
Project aims to find meaning in age of greenwashing in collaboration with artists such as Jeff Koons

Hannah Marriott

08, Oct, 2020 @4:59 PM

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Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss review – transfixing cacophony from a secret underworld
A vast underground cavern that could be a Bond-movie set is filled with the keening of professional mourners in this extraordinary exploration of grief

Adrian Searle

18, Apr, 2018 @6:00 PM

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Back to black: why US artist Taryn Simon is going into mourning
It took Taryn Simon seven years to create her latest installation, which brings together professional mourners from 15 different countries. She explains why the work is as risky as it is moving

Sean O'Hagan

02, Apr, 2018 @8:00 AM

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Bondraker: how one woman has turned 007's world upside down

Sean O'Hagan: From Bond girls to plutonium rods, Taryn Simon has photographed all things 007 to scrutinise how the blockbuster franchise taps into our fears and fantasies

Sean O'Hagan

04, Dec, 2013 @12:16 PM

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The best exhibitions of 2011: Adrian Searle's choice
The year's highlights for me included Steve McQueen's brilliant Shame, which still rattles me, and Trisha Brown's dancers walking on the walls of the Barbican, writes Adrian Searle

Adrian Searle

04, Dec, 2011 @10:31 PM

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Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles
Sean O'Hagan: The photography festival winners towered about the rest – in size. But what about the smaller, unsung heroes on the shortlist?

Sean O'Hagan

11, Jul, 2011 @3:26 PM

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Taryn Simon: the woman in the picture

Taryn Simon is currently the hottest property in art photography, with her work sought after by major museums across the world. On the eve of her latest show at Tate Modern, she talks to Sean O'Hagan about her complex and challenging images and the painstaking creative processes involved

Sean O'Hagan

21, May, 2011 @11:05 PM

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Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

An extract from Taryn Simon's A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

21, May, 2011 @11:05 PM

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Cow-dung toothpaste? Taryn Simon's book Contraband unloads America's baggage
It took five sleepless days and nights inside an airport for Simon to capture these shots of seized goods, from counterfeit jewellery to deer penis. The result is a testament to the ingenuity of those attempting to bring banned goods into America – and those preventing them

Sean O'Hagan

03, Jan, 2011 @5:51 PM

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Taryn Simon's best shot

Taryn Simon: This is a cryopreservation unit just outside Detroit, Michigan. Cryopreservation allows people to have the possibility of an extended life - their bodies are stored in liquid nitrogen until developments in science mean they can be defrosted and resuscitated.

Interview by Leo Benedictus

20, Sep, 2007 @11:10 AM

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