Julia Peirone: Girls, Girls, Girls

Studies of young girls, identity, social norms and the photographic medium itself. A beautiful catalogue and a mid-career look at the work of Swedish photo-based artist Julia Peirone

From the publisher:
Julia Peirone has since her debut explored identity and the photographic image, often focusing on young women in series that reflect vulnerability, shame and sexuality from the pages of childhood and adulthood. Above all, Peirone is interested in how reality exists through the image and how, through the gaze, we meet ourselves. Peirone asks questions about what a photographic image can be and what it can do, what are its strengths and limitations. In a time characterized by social media and an image culture that is becoming increasingly self-centered, the uncontrolled and vulnerable becomes important themes. Peirone often works with the casting processes and preparations , moments and failures are given advanced positions. Her photographs become investigations of conditions, imagery and social norms that reflect external demands. Through this, she challenges the relationship between the viewer and the subject, and it becomes crucial for the interpretation of the images whether the viewer is male or female