Tag: Meryl Meisler
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Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH
Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH To say that I’m a fan of Meryl Meisler’s photographs would be an understatement. Her approach ot documenting life is what drew me to photography — black and white square photographs that so perfectly capture a moment in time, seen with humor and pathos. Her archives seem endless as she…
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Meryl Meisler: Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective – LENSCRATCH
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…
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Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH
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…
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A Photographer’s View from Inside a Brooklyn Junior High | The New Yorker
A Photographer’s View from Inside a Brooklyn Junior High Puppy love, cafeteria jousting, and other scenes from a public school in Bushwick in the eighties and early nineties. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-view-from-inside-a-brooklyn-junior-high Between 1981 and 1994, the photographer Meryl Meisler worked as an art teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn, at Roland Hayes Intermediate School 291.…
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New York : Meryl Meisler – The Eye of Photography
Link: Steven Kasher Gallery has inaugurated last week its new solo exhibition devoted to Meryl Meisler’s earliest work. The exhibition includes over 35 black and white prints. The photographs capture the drama and exuberance of the 1970s, when pop-psychology encouraged everyone from suburban Long Island housewives to drag queens and disco queens to self-actualize and act out.…
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Meryl Meisler: LES YES! Photographs of The Lower East Side During The 1970s & ‘80s | LENSCRATCH
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…
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Seventies Long Island: The Whole Mishpocha – The New Yorker
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…
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Meryl Meisler: A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick | LENSCRATCH
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:…