Photography is a medium that easily lends itself to both the fields of realism and fantasy. Often when it does, one describes this as 'surrealism' or 'super realism'; this implies that the work transcends beyond our reality to express a deeper and more complete truth. The photographer Taryn Simon and her work, 'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' looks to suggest how her work voices a response that is as much about a public psyche, as to what her photographs are visually representing.