Tag: Meryl Meisler

Meryl Meisler: Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective – LENSCRATCH My entire life I have wanted to visit New York, not only to see the sights but to connect with the people who choose to call this fanciful city home. Although I have not physically stepped foot on New York soil, Meryl Meisler’s  photographs makes it seem…

Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH I love photographs of New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s, when the city was at its worst and at its best, filled with a raw energy, graffiti covered subway cars, fueled by cocaine and poppers, throbbing nightclubs providing endless nights of fantasy and via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/meryl-meisler-quirkyvision/ I love…

Meryl Meisler: LES YES! Photographs of The Lower East Side During The 1970s & ‘80s I’ve featured Meryl Meisler’s wonderful photographs on Lenscratch numerous times and needless to say, I’m a fan. Her legacy as a New York City street photographer over the past 40 years ago reveals a grittier metropolis, nights of drugs and…

Seventies Long Island: The Whole Mishpocha In the Jewish suburbia of Meryl Meisler’s youth, the bouffants are tall, the décor is loud, and everyone is a character or a ham. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/seventies-long-island-the-whole-mishpocha before she began documenting urban life in New York, Meryl Meisler trained her eye outside of the city, photographing her…

Meryl Meisler: A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick Photographer Meryl Meisler has a lot going on.  She recently published A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick to much acclaim and will soon be launching a new book, Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & The City at the Bushwick Open Studios at The via LENSCRATCH:…