Contraband
Gottingen: Steidl / Gagosian, 2010.
ISBN: 9783869301341
Condition: Fine
Softcover
480 pp , 23,8 x 17,6 cm SIGNED
Taryn Simon continues to explore contradictory aspects of American identity while exposing the veiled mechanisms of society.For five days in November 2009, Simon lived at John F Kennedy International Airport, which processes more international passengers than any other airport in the United States. The exhaustive pace at which she photographed paralleled the twenty-four hour rhythm by which goods move across borders and time zones. Contraband includes 1075 photographs of over 1000 items detained or seized from passengers and from express mail entering the U.S. from abroad. An often bizarre range of items include counterfeit American Express travelers checks, Jamaican rum, heroin, a dead hawk, an illegal Mexican passport, deer penis, purses made from endangered species, Cuban cigars, counterfeit Disney DVDs, khat, gold dust, cow manure tooth powder, counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags, prohibited sausage, undeclared jewelry, steroids and an ostrich egg. Item #9600
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