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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Taryn Simon

Frederick Daye, Alibi location, American Legion Post 310 San Diego, California, where 13 witnesses placed Daye at the time of the crime, Served 10 years of a Life sentence for Kidnapping, Rape and Vehicle Theft

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Taryn Simon

b. 1975

Frederick Daye, Alibi location, American Legion Post 310 San Diego, California, where 13 witnesses placed Daye at the time of the crime, Served 10 years of a Life sentence for Kidnapping, Rape and Vehicle Theft


archival inkjet print, flush-mounted, framed, a Gagosian Gallery, New York, label on the reverse

image: 48 by 62 in. (121.9 by 157.5 cm.)

frame: 48½ by 62½ in. (123 by 158.5 cm.)

Executed in 2002, this print is number 3 from an edition of 5.

Gagosian Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner

Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich, YES, YES, YES, YES, October 2005 - January 2006

Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Welten, January - March 2006

Essen, Museum Folkwang, There Are Some Who Are in Darkness: Works from the Olbricht Collection, Selected by the artist, November 2013 - March 2014

Paris, Jeu de Paume, Taryn Simon, February - March 2015

Most Wanted: The Olbricht Collection - Some Recent Acquisitions (Cologne, 2005), p. 34

YES, YES, YES, YES: Difference And Repetition in Pictures of the Olbricht Collection (Leverkusen: Museum Morsbroich, 2005), p. 176 (this print)

Taryn Simon, The Innocents (Berlin, 2021), pp. 97-9