Taryn Simon

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Contraband Room John F. Kennedy International Airport Queens, New York (from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar)

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Taryn Simon

b. 1975

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Contraband Room John F. Kennedy International Airport Queens, New York (from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar)

laminated chromogenic print, framed, Gagosian Gallery, New York, labels on the reverse

image: 25½ by 33 in. (64.8 by 83.8 cm.)

frame: 37⅜ by 44⅞ in. (95 by 114 cm.)

Executed in 2005, printed in 2007, this print is number 2 from an edition of 7.

Gagosian Gallery, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Oberstdorf, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Welt-er-findung: Zeitgenössische Photographie aus der Sammlung Olbricht, 2011

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

Dresden, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum and Ulm, Museum Brot und Kunst - Forum Welternährung, Future Food: Food for the World of Tomorrow, May 2020 - August 2021 and October 2021 - February 2022

Taryn Simon, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (Göttingen, 2007), pp. 75 and 138

Future Food: Food for the World of Tomorrow (Dresden: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum and Ulm: Museum Brot und Kunst - Forum Welternährung, 2020), pp. 98-9 (this print)