I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy. — Taryn Simon Fantasy Copy Share Image
You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then… — Taryn Simon Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe,… — Taryn Simon Ability Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Abstraction Copy Share Image
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information. — Taryn Simon Archives Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try… — Taryn Simon Also Copy Share Image
Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident. — Taryn Simon Accidents Copy Share Image
I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in… — Taryn Simon Audience Copy Share Image
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any… — Taryn Simon Absolute truth Copy Share Image
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again… — Taryn Simon Again Copy Share Image
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm… — Taryn Simon Being Copy Share Image
The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting -… — Taryn Simon Claims Copy Share Image
My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. — Taryn Simon Agenda Copy Share Image
Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The… — Taryn Simon Belief Copy Share Image
