An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar [SIGNED - 2007 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING]

Steidl, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED COPY Germany by Steidl, Göttingen (2007). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine gray cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on black debossed title block on cover and spine. Photographs and text by Taryn Simon. Foreword by Salman Rushdie. Introduction by Elizabeth Sussman and Tina Kukielski. Commentary by Ronald Dworkin. 152 pp., with 57 four-color plates and additional reference illustrations. 13-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches. SIGNED in black ink on the title page by Simon. Book Condition: New/Fine. SIGNED Published on the occasion of the 2007-2008 exhibition Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. Fittingly presented in the style of a reference library index, Simon's follow-up to her provocative and acclaimed book The Innocents continues to provoke questions about photography's role in social, cultural and legal discourse. From the publisher: "In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Taryn Simon documents spaces that are integral to America's foundation, mythology and daily functioning, but remain inaccessible or unknown to a public audience. She has photographed rarely seen sites from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security and religion. This index examines subjects that, while provocative or controversial, are currently legal. The work responds to a desire to discover unknown territories, to see everything. Simon makes use of the annotated photograph's capacity to engage and inform the public. Transforming that which is off-limits or under-the-radar into a visible and intelligible form, she confronts the divide between the privileged access of the few and the limited access of the public.