{"product_id":"justine-kurland-girl-pictures","title":"Justine Kurland – Girl Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI staged the girls as a standing army of teenaged runaways in resistance to patriarchal ideals\u003c\/em\u003e – Justine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50955994136815,"sku":null,"price":99.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/3927\/files\/IMG_3019_7fbdc436-6d7d-4038-ac43-f6f36724257c.jpg?v=1790224210","url":"https:\/\/www.perimeterbooks.com\/products\/justine-kurland-girl-pictures","provider":"Perimeter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}