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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.

Tickets available here.

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Susan Meiselas - The Evolution of Documentary Storytelling 

Saturday, April 28 5:30 - 7pm 

PGH Photo Fair Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 

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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 through her rigorous and intense handling of the most pressing political and social issues of our time. Ethnic and religious conflicts related to borders and to gender, plus migration and rootlessness, are just some of the subjects running through her work, which tirelessly questions the role of the media and the status accorded pictures depending on the collective or subjective context in which those images are viewed. Grasping Meiselas’ approach means abandoning preconceptions that lock photography into a documentary framework, means distancing oneself from photojournalism that decontextualized reality.

This retrospective show, titled Mediations, is being hosted successively by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and SFMOMA in San Francisco. It traces the unique career of an artist who has used photography, film, video, and archives with a relentless determination to contract narratives in which the subjects are fully involved. Many series will thus be on show, some of them in installations specially designed by the artist. They cover more than forty years of work during which Meiselas explored personal and geopolitical situations at various levels. This publication seeks to shed light on the working methods she developed.

To purchase a signed copy visit the Magnum Photos store.

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Only one month left to see Mediations at the Jeu de Paume!

The retrospective devoted to the American photographer Susan Meiselas (b. 1948, Baltimore) brings together a selection of works from the 1970s to the present day. A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Susan Meiselas questions documentary practice. She became known through her work in conflict zones of Central America in the 1970s and 1980s in particular due to the strength of her colour photographs. Covering many subjects and countries, from war to human rights issues and from cultural identity to the sex industry, Meiselas uses photography, film, video and sometimes archive material, as she relentlessly explores and develops narratives integrating the participation of her subjects in her works. The exhibition highlights Susan Meiselas’ unique personal as well as geopolitical approach, showing how she moves through time and conflict and how she constantly questions the photographic process and her role as witness. Curators: Carles Guerra and Pia Viewing. Exposition coproduced by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelone and the Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Susan Meiselas - Mediations February 6 - May 20, 2018 Jeu de Paume 1, place de la Concorde 75008 Paris

Installation views © Jeu de Paume, photo Raphaël Chipault

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Susan Meiselas - Carnival Strippers

Opening Reception: January 11, 6 - 8 PM

January 11 - March 3, 2018

Danziger Gallery 95 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002

From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease at small town carnivals around New England. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. Meiselas' frank description of these women and the intimate and empathetic quality of her photographs brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the women's movement the book "Carnival Strippers” was published in 1976 to immediate acclaim and heralding a fresh and important new voice in photography.  Since then, Meiselas’s observant eye and mind have continued to tackle all manner of complex struggles and times of change from Nicaragua to Kurdistan to her own neighborhood in downtown New York.

Among numerous awards Meiselas received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, an ICP Infinity award in 2005, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015.  A retrospective of her work is currently on view at the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, and opens at the Jeu de Paume this February and San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art in 2018.

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Women Photograph: Daniella Zalcman in Conversation with Susan Meiselas

Please join us for a conversation with Susan Meiselas and Daniella Zalcman about the shifting challenges and opportunities for women in photography.

Susan is a photographer, educator, and president of the Magnum Foundation. Daniella is the recipient of the 2016 Inge Morath Award and founder of Women Photograph, an initiative launched this year.

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