Susan Meiselas

Photographer
   
Location: New York City, New York
Nationality: American
Biography: Susan Meiselas, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1948, received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA in visual education from Harvard University. Her first major photographic essay focused on the lives of women doing striptease at New... MORE
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Document Journal: Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream
susan meiselas
Sep 19, 2023
"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 are the last bastion of the American Dream
Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off
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