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June 29, 2023

Strange Hours: Rebecca Bengal and Justine Kurland in Conversation

At McNally Jackson Seaport - New York, NY

Book Launch

Strange Hours: Rebecca Bengal and Justine Kurland in Conversation

Thursday, June 29

7:00 p.m. EDT

McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St, New York, NY

Join Aperture and McNally Jackson Bookstore for a conversation between writer Rebecca Bengal and artist Justine Kurland to celebrate the launch of Bengal’s most recent publication, Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists (Aperture, 2023).

In Strange Hours, Rebecca Bengal considers the photographers who have defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous essays and interviews, she contemplates photography’s narrative power, from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin’s New York demimonde to Justine Kurland’s pictures of rebel girls on the open road, bringing us closer to pioneering artists and the personal and political stories surrounding their images. Throughout Strange Hours, Bengal’s prose is attuned to the alchemy of experience, chance, and vision that has always pushed photography’s potential for unforgettable storytelling.

This event is presented in partnership with McNally Jackson.

This event is sold out. A recording will be made available after the event.

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Rebecca Bengal is a writer of fiction, essays, and documentary journalism about art, literature, film, music, and the environment. A regular contributor to Aperture, her writing has been published in the Paris Review, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Oxford American, Southwest Review, the Believer, the Guardian, and the Criterion Collection. A MacDowell fellow in fiction and a former editor at Vogue, Bengal holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin. Originally from western North Carolina, Bengal lives in Brooklyn.

Justine Kurland received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Yale University. Her work is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and International Center of Photography, New York, among other institutions. Her monograph, Highway Kind, was published by Aperture in 2016.

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Image: Justine Kurland, Toys R Us, 1998; from Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists by Rebecca Bengal (Aperture, 2023). Courtesy the artist


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