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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures

Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures

Kurland, Justine
Bengal, Rebecca
Kurland, Justine

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 159711474X
ISBN13: 9781597114745
Publisher: Aperture
Published: May 26 2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.38
Height: 0.71 Width: 9.13 Depth: 11.18
Language: English
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 Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.

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