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Taryn Simon
Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies
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Ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary art, film aficionados, and those fascinated by the intersection of nature and culture, especially fans of the James Bond series and ornithology.
Taryn Simon (*1975) casts herself as James Bond (1900-1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
The new James Bond archive by Taryn Simon
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In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel's lead character. He found it "flat and colourless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous... a blunt instrument in the hands of the government."
In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon (born 1975) casts herself as James Bond (1900-1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into.
Simon's ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
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ISBN: 9783775740920
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 April 2016
Country: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Illustration: 367
Contributors:
- Text by Daniel Baumann
- Text by Nico Baumbach
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 192.0mm
Height: 290.0mm
Weight: 2110g
Pages: 636
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