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Taryn Simon

October 2020

  • Timelessness by William Eggleston.

    Stella McCartney launches A-Z sustainability manifesto

    Project aims to find meaning in age of greenwashing in collaboration with artists such as Jeff Koons

April 2018

  • Zamfira Ludovica Muresan in An Occupation of Loss by Taryn Simon.

    Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss review – transfixing cacophony from a secret underworld

  • Taryn Simon

    Back to black: why US artist Taryn Simon is going into mourning

December 2013

  • Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), 1964

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    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

December 2011

  • Hauser & Wirth's Piccadilly gallery turned into social centre

    Critics' cultural highlights 2011
    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

July 2011

  • Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse's Ponte City

    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?

May 2011

  • Taryn Simon

    Taryn Simon: the woman in the picture

  • Babloo Yadav and Mukesh Yadav

    Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

January 2011

  • taryn simon bird corpse

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    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

September 2007

  • My best shot
    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.

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