{"product_id":"justine-kurland-scumb-manifesto","title":"Justine Kurland: SCUMB Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"purchase-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"purchase-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"purchase-inner-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"purchase-prod-deets\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"Quantity-Form-template--23654722666831__main\" class=\"product-form__input product-form__quantity\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-block-Aa3dweDRNVnJVQ2p0d__sc_back_in_stock_app_block_LxJM6b\" class=\"shopify-block shopify-app-block\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-block-Aa3dweDRNVnJVQ2p0d__sc_back_in_stock_app_block_LxJM6b-1\" class=\"shopify-block shopify-app-block\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eInspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSCUM\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Society for Cutting Up Men)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSCUMB Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage — heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy — has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work\u003c\/span\u003e is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland’s earlier photographic projects\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGirl Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1997–2002) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMama Babies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2004–07). Each work in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSCUMB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esounds an electrifying call for freedom — the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIncludes essays by Marina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes a large-format pull-out poster in the back of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e SCUMB Manifesto\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003eMACK, 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhotographer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Justine Kurland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eText: \u003c\/strong\u003eMarina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Swiss bound paperback with sillkscreen printed gauze on spine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24.5 x 32cm, 282 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1-913620-56-1\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"* New or Sealed *","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56472944017788,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2244\/5351\/files\/1_4988d808-a742-4d4b-b4ee-12289ed30c78.png?v=1773159686","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/products\/justine-kurland-scumb-manifesto","provider":"TPG Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}