Girl Pictures

Justine Kurland
9781597114745 / 159711474X
Girl Pictures

Girl Pictures

Justine Kurland
9781597114745 / 159711474X
Publisher Aperture 2020
Edition Hardcover , 144 pages
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Publisher’s 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 runwaawys in resistance to patriarchal ideals,” says Kurland. She portrays 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 camerea (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 Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.

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Book title Girl Pictures
Photographer Justine Kurland
ISBN 10 159711474X / 1-59711-474-X       
ISBN 13 9781597114745 / 978-1-59711-474-5
Publisher Aperture
Publish year 2020
Book format Hardcover
Language English
Pages 144 pages
Number of photographs 76 images
Dimensions 23 x 28 cm / 11 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
Weight 1,1 kg

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