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Taryn Simon

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February 4, 1975, New York City, New York, U.S. (age 49)
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Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975, New York City, New York, U.S.) American photographer known for her formal, richly textured images, usually captured with an antique large-format camera. She typically assembled her photographs around a predetermined theme or concept and drew the often disparate results together with academically precise textual explanation in the form of captions and brief paragraphs. Simon was raised in New York City and Long Island. Her father worked for the U.S. Department of State and frequently returned from his international expeditions with reams of photographs, allowing Simon singular insight into little-seen regions and sparking an early ...(100 of 675 words)

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