题 目：Justine Kurland: Highway Kind / 贾斯汀·库尔兰：公路人生

作 者：Justine Kurland

出 版：Aperture，2021

装 帧：精装，144页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：23*28.5 cm

贾斯汀·库兰德的摄影创作延续罗伯特·弗兰克、斯蒂芬·肖尔和乔尔·斯坦菲尔德的血脉，以镜头审视美国叙事——将美国梦的理想与现实并置对照。她对公路、西部边疆、逃离行径以及主流价值观外生活方式的深切关注，始终贯穿着这组震撼而重要的作品。

自2004年起，库兰德与年幼的儿子卡斯珀驾驶改装旅行车一路南来北往——冬赴暖疆，夏赴北境，她的艺术家与母亲双重身份在既定轨迹与自由渴望间获得精妙平衡。卡斯珀的兴趣取向（尤其是对火车及后来对汽车的痴迷）与沿途结识的人群，往往决定着库兰德的创作主题。男孩不同成长阶段的身影穿梭于作品之中：时而伫立于开阔地平线前，时而隐没于跳车浪人与漂泊者的亚文化群落。库兰德的视觉语言既粗粝又浪漫，既田园诗意又反乌托邦。

从史诗景观中穿行的火车（承载高度象征意义），到机械师与肌肉车的寓言式呈现，本书完整收录了她的公路创作——从《这列火车开往荣耀》系列，直至最新的《真诚汽车护理》系列。

Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland’s work examines the story of America―and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality. Her deep interest in the road, the western frontier, escape, and ways of living outside mainstream values pervade this stunning and important body of work.

Since 2004, Kurland and her young son, Casper, have traveled in their customized van, going south in the winter and north in the summer, her life as an artist and mother finely balanced between the need for routine and the desire for freedom and surprise. Casper’s interest ―particularly in trains, and later in cars―and those he befriends along the way often determine Kurland’s subject matter. He appears at different ages in the work, against open vistas and among the subcultures of train-hoppers and drifters around them. Kurland’s vision is in equal parts raw and romantic, idyllic and dystopian.

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.