Archives Quote by Taryn Simon

“Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.”

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I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

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Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

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I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of…

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There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful…

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Photography threatens fantasy.

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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again,…

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The majority of my work is about preparation.

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“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers.…

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I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and…

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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries…

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