Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
More than five years after its initial release,American Indexstill offers a fresh way to look at the country, one that departs from the street-shot tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, and fuses the stylized aesthetics of photographers like Gregory Crewdson with the expository ambitions of artists like Trevor Paglen. Simon's is not the America we usually encounter, but in its strangeness, the artist shows us more about ourselves than we might expect.  --Jessica Loudis