Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

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Occupying five rooms and crafted into a 773-page book that should come with its own lectern; the work is a systematic record of 18 bloodlines or Chapters and their related stories. As with An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), Simon has unearthed an arbitrary selection of curious or nightmarish scenarios and invites us to analyse each as meticulously as she has brought them to our attention.