Three years ago, Justine Kurland set out to destroy her personal library. Kurland, a photographer whose works hang in world-renowned museums like the Whitney and the Guggenheim, lives in a tenement apartment in Lower Manhattan jam-packed with books. Assessing her collection of expensive, lavishly produced photo books, she realized something: 99 percent were authored by straight white men. At first, that fact disturbed her; then it inspired her.
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