The Psilocybin Blues
July / August, 2014
TARYN SIMON'S Birds of the West IndiesIN HER LATEST PROJECT, ACCLAIMED CONCEPTUAL ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER TARYN SIMON TRAINS HER LENS ON THE JAMES BOND FRANCHISEA few facts to consider: A "bird" in the snappy slang of swinging London is a babe. The real-life James Bond—an actual flesh-and-blood man whose name Ian Fleming lifted for the spy 007—was an ornithologist and the author of Birds of the West Indies, a book published in 1936 that exhaustively catalogs more than 400 species of bi...
