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Taryn Simon: The Innocents Jun 11 - Jul 31, 2004
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Taryn Simon
CHARLES IRVIN FAIN
Scene of the crime, the Snake River, Melba, Idaho
Served 18 years of a death sentence, 2002
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Taryn Simon
LARRY YOUNGBLOOD
Alibi location, Tucson, Arizona
With Alice Laitner, Youngblood's Girlfriend and alibi witness at trial
Served 8 years of a 10.5-year sentence for Sexual Assault, Kidnapping and Child Molestation, 2002, 2002
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Taryn Simon
RONALD JONES
Scene of arrest, South Side, Chicago, Illinois
Served 8 years of a Death sentence, 2002, 2002
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Taryn Simon
TROY WEBB
Scene of the crime, The Pines, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Served 7 years of a 47-year sentence for Rape, Kidnapping and Robbery, 2002
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TARYN SIMON: The Innocents
Jun 11 - Jul 31, 2004
Opening reception for the artist: Thursday, June 10th 6 – 8pm
Gagosian Gallery, London is pleased to present "The Innocents," a recent photographic project by the American artist Taryn Simon.
In "The Innocents," Simon documents the stories of individuals who have served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. Her subjects - the wrongfully convicted – are captured in a series of rare and unsettling portraits. The artist’s formal choices – the use of dramatic lighting, large-scale format photography and the calculated relationship between the subject and the location – simultaneously seduce and challenge the viewer to confront contemporary social and political issues. At issue is the question of photography's function as a credible eyewitness.
Simon photographed her subjects at sites of particular significance in their wrongful convictions. These scenes of misidentifications, of arrests, of the alibis, and the scene of the crime all hold contradictory meanings for the subjects. In these photographs Taryn Simon confronts photography's ability to blur truth and fiction.
Taryn Simon lives and works in New York. "The Innocents" has been exhibited in 2003 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York and at Kunstwerke, Berlin. Simon was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography. "The Innocents," Simon`s first book, was published in the spring of 2003 by Umbrage Editions. Her photography and writing has been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts, including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Frontline, CNN and BBC.
Taryn Simon: "The Innocents" will be showing concurrently at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
For further information please contact the gallery.
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