Art And Commerce-Taryn Simon

Art and Commerce has been popping into my world more than ever the past few days through conversation,and internet. I went onto there agency site and checked out one of my favorite photographers, Taryn Simon. Taryn Simon sounds like a mans name, it's a woman. Every once in a while you open an editorial and inside there are images that look very well thought out,composed, and worthy of display/exhibition in a gallery. Taryn Simon is one of those photographers. She has had a handful of covers for the New York Times and is very very successful for her young age. An inspirational figure in many ways. This excerpt from her body of work "Innocents", was a published editorial, and is also in galleries. The photographs hold meaning in all directions, lighting,composition,content,subject matter.From the Art and Commerce website-The Innocents, is a project in which Simon records the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit, visualized as book, exhibitions and a documentary film. Central to the project is the question of photography's function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice. Her new body of work, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, will be published and premiere in her first solo show at The Whitney Museum of American Art in March 2007.

The genesis for The Innocents was a New York Times Magazine photo assignment in the Fall of 2000. Simon has continued to create apt and startling photography for that magazine — most recently, photographing both the Palestinian President in Gaza and the Syrian President in Damascus. Her photography and written work has also been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Visionnaire, CNN, Frontline, and the BBC.