Renowned photographer Taryn Simon is reissuing her acclaimed photobook Taryn Simon: Contraband with a foreword by art curator and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist. Contraband contains over 1,000 on-site photographs taken during five days at the US Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the US Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Simon’s subjects were items detained or seized from incoming passengers and express mail—a miscellanea including Botox, deer tongues, Cohiba cigars, Lidocaine, GBL date rape drug, pork, heroin, imitation Lipitor, syringes, locust tree seed, cow urine and Egyptian cigarettes. Simon is a Guggenheim Fellow and has exhibited in the likes of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MOCA Los Angeles.

via Hatje Cantz

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