Taryn Simon Rear Views - Couverture rigide

Salman Rushdie; Homi K. Bhabha; Simon Baker

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184976235X ISBN 13 : 9781849762359

Editeur : Tate, 2015

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Born in New York in 1975, Taryn Simon is at the forefront of contemporary photography practice. Her artistic medium is based around three equal elements, photography, text and graphic design, which combined investigate the limitations of absolute understanding, examining the gaps between each element and how this can lead to disorientation and ambiguity.
In the last ten years she has created a suite of projects which deal with a number of theoretical and visual concerns. Her formal interest in arrangement and cataloguing has seen her experiment with different methods of presentation and display, particularly in A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-11) in which she travelled around the world researching bloodlines: splitting up each work in the final piece into three segments, she presented large portrait sequences of related individuals on the left, a text panel containing details and narratives in the centre, and 'footnote images' on the right of fragmented pieces of established narratives and other photographic evidence. Simon has also skilfully and poetically tackled aspects of the underbelly of American life. Her 2009 project, Contraband, saw her systematically photograph thousands of items received through customs and the international postal service at JFK airport, categorising them into often grotesque and bizarre groupings. Published in close collaboration with the artist, this brand-new book will provide a complete overview of her practice to date. With new and re-published essays by amongst others Salman Rushdie, Homi Bhabha, Daniel Baumann, Tim Griffin, Tina Kuklieski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Elisabeth Sussman. With an introduction by Simon Baker, Curator of Photography at Tate Modern.

Revue de presse

Accompanying the artist's latest exhibition in Paris, Rear Views is a very suitable vehicle for photographer Taryn Simon's trademark research-heavy approach. Assembling much of the work the American artist has created since 2002, the book chronicles the minutiae and back-stories behind her large-scale photographic installations. We especially like A Polite Fiction, which explores the deceptions, fictions, strategies and covert interactions behind the construction of Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton, with the object - as ever - at its heart. --Wallpaper*

Amasses the artist's works from 2002 to present into a dense-but-captivating diary... It's an art book, but also a social inquisition. --Source Magazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tate
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 184976235X
• ISBN 13: 9781849762359
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 216