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American photographer

Justine Kurland (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City.

Early life and education

Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York.

She earned her B.F.A.

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from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to study with Gregory Crewdson at Yale University^[1] where she received an M.F.A. in 1998.

Life and career

Kurland first gained public notice with her work in the group show Another Girl, Another Planet (1999), at New York's Van Doren Waxter gallery.^[2][3] The show included her large c-print staged tableau pictures of neo-romantic landscapes inhabited by young adolescent girls, half-sprites, half juvenile delinquents.

This was her first exhibition of a photographic interest that lasted from 1997, when she began taking pictures of her mentor Laurie Simmons's babysitter and her friends, to 2002. Altogether, Kurland published 69 pictures of girls in a series called "