This Train Special Edition

Justine Kurland

MACK

£275.00 GBP

Available to preorder - this title is due to ship in late November.

This special edition makes the quickly sold-out monograph available again, presenting a signed first edition of the book alongside two conjoined signed prints handmade by the artist, housed in an embossed buckram slipcase. Limited edition of 50 copies.

This Train presents two interwoven narratives drawn from the road trips across the United States that photographer Justine Kurland undertook with her young child between the years 2005 and 2010. Through arresting large-format photographs of her child and herself and of the winding railways which carve through the American landscape, Kurland constructs an alternative family album deconstructing an entwined set of paradigms with a tenacious grip on contemporary American life: the nuclear family, the open road, the violence of expansion, and the intractable force of the land itself. The book includes new essays by novelist Constance Debré and scholar Lily Cho.

Limited edition of 50 signed copies

Leporello bound hardcover, embossed with 2 flaps and tipped-in image to front cover, housed in an embossed buckram slipcase.
Includes a handmade print by the artist.
25.3 x 18.3cm, 102 pages


ISBN 978-1-915743-29-9SE
November 2024
€300 £275 $300

‘Happily, this rich book object invites multiple viewings, so that all of its meanings might unfold.’ Vanity Fair

‘If Casper and Justine are a pair held by a landscape in This Train, it is one that doesn’t always feel like it is holding them in safety; but among the indifference of the great American plains, they seem to hold each other within it.’ AnOther

‘Family albums usually look the same: holiday dinners and birthday parties, children positioned in front of prized roses, or domestic settings that project class and stability through guises of normalcy drawn from scenes in television sitcoms. Where are the family albums of a queer single mother living on the road with her child?’ The Guardian 

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