Taryn Simon’s Giant Exhibition at the Guggenheim Tells the Story of America

Taryn Simon’s new show at the Guggenheim Museum is an audacious attempt to document the story of modern America through the life of one F.B.I. agent.Simon during the installation of her Guggenheim show. “You feel it on some cellular level,” she says of the huge effort behind her photographic projects. “All these little steps. This is what makes it of value.”