Taryn Simon spent five days photographing items
confiscated from people flying into New York's JFK airport.
"These images are from a set of 1,075
photographs -- shot over five days last year for the book and exhibition,
"Contraband" -- of items detained or seized from passengers or
express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport.
The miscellany of prohibited objects -- from the everyday to the illegal to the
just plain odd -- attests to a growing worldwide traffic in counterfeit goods
and natural exotica and offers a snapshot of the United States as seen through
its illicit material needs and desires".
TARYN SIMON
Bird corpse, labeled as home décor, Indonesia to Miami, Florida (prohibited, 2010
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