{"product_id":"justine-kurland-girl-pictures-9781597114745","title":"Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom.\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \"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 Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKurland, Justine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJustine Kurland\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHighway Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Aperture in 2016.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBengal, Rebecca:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRebecca Bengal\u003c\/b\u003e writes short stories, essays, and long-form narrative, frequently about photography. Her work has been published by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is the Spring 2020 Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614585098514,"sku":"9781597114745","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6645dba-d0a2-4b5e-80bf-3773c6f0de07.jpg?v=1732450743","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/justine-kurland-girl-pictures-9781597114745","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}