Tag: Susan Meiselas

  • Revisiting the World of “Carnival Strippers” | The New Yorker

    Revisiting the World of “Carnival Strippers”

    Revisiting the World of “Carnival Strippers”

    Susan Meiselas’s intimate view of a sex-industry subculture remains a remarkable document of its time.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-the-world-of-carnival-strippers

    Susan Meiselas was twenty-four years old when she began photographing the women of carnival strip shows, in 1972. The following three summers, at small-town fairgrounds on the East Coast, she captured the performers both onstage and off, nude and not, in dim, makeshift dressing rooms or outdoors in sunshine, against a shifting backdrop of box trucks, tents, and painted plywood sets

  • 11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

    11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work
    Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.
  • Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids

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    Eyes Open is loosely inspired by Meiselas’ previous cult classic, Learn to See, a sourcebook of ideas from and for teachers and students published by the Polaroid Foundation in 1974. Reimagining this volume nearly 50 years later, Eyes Open saw Meiselas work with students and their work, not to mention an array of teachers who also submitted ideas for the newly published tome.
  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Ideas From “The Photographer’s Playbook”

    https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sheltering-in-place-ideas-from-the-photographer-s-playbook/
    Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern and published by Aperture, The Photographer’s Playbook contains advice, exercises and insight from John Baldessari, Tim Barber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jim Goldberg, Miranda July, Susan Meiselas, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Mark Steinmetz, Roger Ballen, David Campany, Asger Carlson, Ari Marcopoulos, Todd Hido, and many more. —Text compiled by Alex Nicholson
  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020
    For those of us who work in journalism the myth of the cavalier photojournalist who rushes toward conflict with zeal is well established. Robert Capa’s famous comment about photographers needing to get close to the action in order to capture the best picture is part of industry folklore. Don McCullin has spoken about the adrenalin rush of going to war, likening it to drug addiction. Tim Page’s antics during the Vietnam War have been immortalised in pop culture, Dennis Hopper’s character in the movie Apocalypse Now modelled on the British photographer. Yet while there are those who are lauded as celebrities, the vast majority of conflict photojournalists work in the background, committing themselves to covering some of the world’s darkest moments, to bearing witness to history, largely invisible to the outside world. Glory and money do not motivate them. In fact, these days it is more difficult to make ends meet than ever before. So what drives an individual to the frontline or to document the depths of human misery?
  • When Women Photographers Went to War

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    When Women Photographers Went to War

    From Gerda Taro to Susan Meiselas, a new book examines the ways eight women have expanded the field of war photography.

  • Susan Meiselas has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019

    Susan Meiselas has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019

    Susan Meiselas has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 at The Photographers’ Gallery, London for her first European retrospective Mediations at Jeu de Paume, Paris 2018.

  • Susan Meiselas: A life in groundbreaking photography

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    Susan Meiselas: A life in groundbreaking photography

    Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas has spent five decades questioning the practice of photography. But whether it’s documenting the lives of showgirls or an unfolding revolution, her open-ended approach gives the images a life of their own.

  • Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice. – Mother Jones

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    Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice. – Mother Jones

    It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening of her exhibition in mid-July, she lamented the current state of the Central American country, once again embroiled in a violent revolution to overthrow a repressive government. The script has flipped with Daniel Ortega, brought to power by the Sandinasta revolution that Meiselas covered, accused of a brutal crackdown on protesters.

  • Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography – The New York Times

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    Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography – The New York Times

    Susan Meiselas, who joined Magnum Photos in 1976, is also the president and co-founder of the Magnum Foundation. Born in 1948 and starting as a teacher in the South Bronx, she went on to produce a definitive chronicle of Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution. More recently, she has led the foundation’s efforts to nurture a new, diverse generation of photographers. Her books include “Carnival Strippers,” “Nicaragua,” and “Prince Street Girls.” In the last year, she has also been the subject of two books, “Susan Meiselas: Mediations” (Damiani) and “Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline” (Thames & Hudson). She spoke with James Estrin about her career. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.

  • Susan Meiselas: On Motivation, Her Legacy and the Future of Photojournalism | PDN Online

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    Susan Meiselas: On Motivation, Her Legacy and the Future of Photojournalism | PDN Online

    The work of American photographer Susan Meiselas is the subject of a traveling retrospective exhibition currently on view at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, France and opening in July at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “Mediations,” which is accompanied by a catalogue published by Damiani, brings together a selection of series from the 1970s to the present, calling attention to Meiselas’s photographic approach and her lifelong commitment to engage in a “cycle of return” with her subjects, going back to the communities she has photographed and sharing the work with them. The exhibition also demonstrates how Meiselas has found ways to extend narratives beyond a photographic frame by using audio, film and archival materials to build layered stories that include multiple perspectives. The retrospective follows on the heels of her book On the Frontline, a memoir about her career published last fall by Aperture. In it, she discusses the experiences, motivations and ideas that shaped different, yet connected, bodies of work.

  • Susan Meiselas on how she shot Molotov men, war widows and carnival strippers | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Susan Meiselas on how she shot Molotov men, war widows and carnival strippers | Art and design | The Guardian

    The great photographer has spent five decades capturing ordinary people caught in the turbulence of history. As a retrospective opens, she reveals the ways being a woman helped

  • Susan Meiselas’s Redemptive Time | The Nation

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    Susan Meiselas’s Redemptive Time | The Nation

    In her new photo-memoir, the photographer returns to the origin of her career to reflect on all she’s remembered, and why it’s worth remembering.

  • Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline – The Eye of Photography

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    Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline – The Eye of Photography

    In On the Frontline, her new book published by Aperture, influential photographer Susan Meiselas provides an insightful personal commentary on the trajectory of her career—on her ideas and processes, and her decisions as a photographer. Applying a sociological training to the practice of witness journalism, she compares her process to that of an archaeologist, piecing together shards of evidence to build a three-dimensional cultural understanding of her subjects.

  • Susan Meiselas, Nicaragua 1978/1979 – The Eye of Photography

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    Susan Meiselas, Nicaragua 1978/1979 – The Eye of Photography

    Susan Meiselas was there during the last years of the conflict (1978-79). Meiselas’ photographs capture the Sandinista’s and the Nicaraguan people’s struggle for freedom – depicting battle, lost lives, collateral damage, and ultimately victory – as they overcame the military might and power of the Somoza regime

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 18 November, 2016

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up

    This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up I’m sharing a couple of stories I wrote that were published recently in New Zealand Pro Photographer – a book review on Stuart Franklin’s The Documentary Impulse and also a Q&A with Susan Meiselas. But first, Donna Ferrato…

  • Behind the Mask: Scenes From Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution – The New York Times

    Behind the Mask: Scenes From Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution

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    A photo of three men wearing traditional Nicaraguan folk masks and holding homemade contact bombs graced the cover of The New York Times Magazine on July 30, 1978. Alan Riding’s article, with photos by Susan Meiselas, chronicled the popular uprising against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

  • Moving Walls 22 – Watching You, Watching Me: A Photographic Response to Surveillance – The Eye of Photography

    Moving Walls 22 – Watching You, Watching Me: A Photographic Response to Surveillance

    With radical and varied visual responses, the ten photographers in this edition of Moving Walls take a long view of the question of surveillance. The thematic curation orchestrated by Yukiko Yamagata, Susan Meiselas and Stuart Alexander reflects on the scope of documentary photography and the universal means available to decipher the most critical issues of our times – times when, as Mari Bastashevski remarked, there is no real difference in the ways power is managed in the East and West. 

  • Empowering Photographers to Embrace an Uncertain Future


    Link: Empowering Photographers to Embrace an Uncertain Future

    With a torrent of images from the mundane to the momentous on social media and online, Susan Meiselas has been thinking about how to empower and excite photographers about an uncertain future. Ms. Meiselas, a member of Magnum, was a guest editor for the latest issue of Aperture magazine, where she highlights how photographers can embrace their new tools to make new choices and start new conversations.

  • Susan Meiselas Interview


    Link: Susan Meiselas Interview | burn magazine

    You need people who believe that it is still important to see what is going on in the world at whatever level that means. You know, I never thought about it in terms of ‘news’. What we used to do very well was anticipate. I mean, that’s really important to think about. We had to anticipate, because it took weeks or months for publications to prepare to go to print. In fact, even that’s part of the reason I personally never worked for National Geographic. For me, the difficulty of Geographic was that the anticipation cycle was so long. So if I was working on a timely subject, I wanted to see the publication in relation to the production in a closer cycle. And Geographic was so extended; it might be six months or a year after you did the work that you would see it in print. So it didn’t seem optimal or advantageous for the kind of work I was doing at that time. It was a more reflective space lets say. Now, that’s a very valuable space; to have the opportunity to be more reflective and not have to be as immediate which is what this new medium has created and now demands in some ways. This intensity that we have to produce and deliver and disseminate instantaneously — so that there is no time for reflection. The MF’s Magnum Emergency Fund is trying to create a margin in which photographers can still have a degree of independence to reflect and create work