Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures

Hardback

Main Details

Title Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures
Authors and Contributors      Contributions by Justine Kurland
Text by Rebecca Bengal
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 270,Width 216
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9781597114745
ClassificationsDewey:779.092
Audience
General
Illustrations 80 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Aperture
Imprint Aperture
Publication Date 28 May 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it's a profoundly masculine myth-cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 on the road in the American wilderness. "I staged the girls as a standing army of teenaged runaways in resistance to patriarchal ideals," says Kurland. She portrays the girls as fearless and free, tender and fierce. They hunt and explore, braid each other's hair, and swim in sun-dappled watering holes-paying no mind to the camera (or the viewer). Their world is at once lawless and utopian, a frontier Eden in the wild spaces just outside of suburban infrastructure and ideas. Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.

Author Biography

Justine Kurland (born in Warsaw, New York, 1969) received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Yale University. Her work is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and International Center of Photography, New York, among other institutions. Her monograph, Highway Kind, was published by Aperture in 2016.