NYT: "In 'American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,' which she completed in 2007 and was another yearslong project, Simon made pictures of secret places around the country — a nuclear-waste storage facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy, or a cage within a cage on death row where a man was imprisoned, or the headquarters of the gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson — with bright, reverent clarity, pairing them with captions that were data-rich and dry. The effect was mesmerizing: an encyclopedia of wonders that also hinted at the underground forces shaping the distribution of power and danger across our society."