Justine Kurland, known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and their fringe communities, has spent the better part of the last twelve years on the road. Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Kurland's work examines the story of America-and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality. From highly symbolic pictures of trains moving across epic landscapes to allegorical depictions of mechanics and muscle cars, this book features the full scope of her road work-from her series This Train is Bound for Glory, to her most recent, Sincere Auto Care.
Justine Kurland (born in Warsaw, New York, 1969) received her BFA
from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA from Yale University.
Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums in the United
States and internationally. Recent museum exhibitions include
Looking Forward: Gifts of Contemporary Art from the Patricia A.
Bell Collection, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; More American
Photographs, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and Off
the Grid #1 and #2, FOTODOK, the Netherlands. She was the focus of
a solo exhibition at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, in 2009. Her
work is in the public collections of institutions including the
Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and
International Center of Photography, New York, as well as the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, among others.
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, storywriter, and critic. Among her
publications are the essay collection What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
(2013), the story collection Someday This Will Be Funny (2011), and
the novel American Genius: A Comedy (2006). She writes a bimonthly
column, “In These Intemperate Times,” for Frieze magazine. An
excerpt from her novel-in-progress, Men and Apparitions, was
published by Semiotext(e) as part of its installation for the 2014
Whitney Biennial.
“I often see books that I wish we had published and this is top of that list in recent times. Kurland’s life and photography are bound up in her travels across America with her son over a period of 12 years. As an artist and mother, Kurland navigates the vacillating desires for routine and adventure. Peripheral landscapes of doomed American dreams remain at the forefront. The quotidian routines she documents are intimately portrayed in a subtle manner that avoids voyeurism and yet which touchingly portray a love and simplicity away from the complexity of city life.”—Michael Mack
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