Taryn Simon on The Guardian

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Taryn Simon discussing her upcoming show at Tate Modern for the Guardian. While "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar" may be perhaps the finest body of photographic work to emerge from the noughties, it remains to see whether her latest series "Contraband" and "A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters" represent a progression in her practice or a step too far into belabored photographic inquiry.