Susan Meiselas

Photographer

www.susanmeiselas.com

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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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LIVE from the NYPL Susan Meiselas with Ann Hamilton: In Focus

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May 1, 2018

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, Nicaragua, or Prince Street Girls exemplify the intimate engagements she has with the people whose lives she has explored through photography, film, and video. She is joined by artist Ann Hamilton to document the arc of a career that is currently being celebrated in Mediations, a traveling retrospective of Meiselas’s work from the 1970s to the present.

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