Susan Meiselas

PHOTOGRAPHER

"No matter what dreams the clubs promise, what they hold is more or less the same: lap dances, mirrored walls to create the illusion of something bigger, a series of private rooms. And yet, the fantasy endures—the idea that this time, almost anything could happen." - Rachel Rabbit White, Document Journal Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs...

The Baffler: On the Bally "Susan Meiselas divests sex work of fantasy and shows it to be what it is: women working a job. The most real thing, other than the money, is the women who work in these shows. What do they make of it? How do they negotiate embodying someone else’s fantasy each summer, in the season between their other jobs as secretaries, waitresses, housewives,...

Initially overlooked upon publication, Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas’ book Carnival Strippers is having a long overdue revival. As she opens a landmark retrospective of her work in Berlin, Meiselas speaks to Grace Banks about the true meaning behind a radical project that’s now being revisited as a seminal feminist text. Listen to the interview: Susan Meiselas On...

In the early 1970s, Susan Meiselas photographed “carnival strippers” as they travelled across New England navigating the taboo world of male desire – now, the empathetic book gets a reissue. Revisiting Susan Meiselas’ Riveting 1970s “Carnival Strippers” Series In the early 1970s, Susan Meiselas photographed “carnival strippers” as they...

Susan Meiselas’s intimate view of a sex-industry subculture remains a remarkable document of its time. Revisiting the World of “Carnival Strippers” Susan Meiselas’s intimate view of a sex-industry subculture remains a remarkable document of its time. Newyorker.com

The photographer discusses her new book, a photographic resource for kids, Eyes Open, and the original 1970s publication that inspired it. Susan Meiselas on Imagination and Photographic Education | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos Magnumphotos.com

Women in the Spotlight, but Few Behind the Lens (Published 2019) A new award aims to shine a light on a gender imbalance in photography. Nytimes.com

Susan Meiselas speaks to  Vogue about her new exhibition at Rencontres d’Arles, reporting from the frontline of conflict zones, and her enduring fascination with unretouched women. Pioneering Photographer Susan Meiselas On The Power Of The Unretouched Woman “I don't retouch myself, but I find the whole process fascinating – when women decide to do it and...

'Especially relevant': Susan Meiselas wins 2019 Deutsche Börse photography prize From displaced Kurds to carnival strippers, documentarian praised for carving ‘a new form of socially engaged photography’ by getting close to long-term subjects Theguardian.com

“You tell a story differently when someone is listening,” reflects Susan Meiselas – the Magnum photographer who has chronicled some of recent history’s most complex upheavals and events in remarkable depth. From her coverage of the 1978 Nicaraguan revolution and human rights issues across Latin America, to her exploration of the Kurdish diaspora, past and present....

Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice. "Every picture tells a story and has another story behind it: Who's photographed? Who made it? Who found it? How did it survive?" Motherjones.com

Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She's Built with Her Subjects Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her "relationships with subjects over time." Hyperallergic.com

Back to Nicaragua for a Pioneering Photographer of Rebellion (Published 2018) On the eve of a major retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Susan Meiselas finds history repeating itself. Nytimes.com

Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography (Published 2018) Ms. Meiselas, a Magnum photographer since 1976, is the subject of a new book, “Susan Meiselas: Mediations,” which examines her long career and diverse body of work. Nytimes.com

Bieke Depoorter and Susan Meiselas in Conversation at Aperture • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos Magnumphotos.com

Susan Meiselas: “I am directed by where I want to go, where I want to stay, where I want to go back to” The Magnum photographer and subject of a travelling retrospective talks about her work, from documenting conflict zones to portraits of Carnival strippers Theartnewspaper.com

LIVE from the NYPL Susan Meiselas with Ann Hamilton: In Focus May 23, 2018 7-9pm Wachenheim Trustees Room The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10018 Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas is probably best-known for her work dealing with human rights, cultural identity, and the sex industry. Books like Carnival Strippers,...

Susan Meiselas’ most recent book,  Mediations , released in tandem with her current retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, spans five decades of work. Excerpt from the Foreword by Marta Gili and Carles Guerra: Among the pioneers of a critical revision of documentary photography, Susan Meiselas embarked on a dialectical engagement with specific moments of contemporary history...

Kaegan Sparks on Susan Meiselas In the late 1970s, Susan Meiselas—then a new member of Magnum Photos, an artist-owned agency and standard bearer for the postwar field of photojournalism—traveled to Nicaragua, where she documented the Sandinista uprising against the government’s... Artforum.com