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Susan Meiselas

Carnival Strippers: 1972 -1975

January 11 – March 3, 2018

Self-Portrait. 1971, 17.5 x 11.5" silver gelatin print

Self-Portrait. 1971

17.5 x 11.5" silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Lena on the Bally Box, Essex Junction, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Lena on the Bally Box, Essex Junction, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Teen Dream, Woodstock, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Teen Dream, Woodstock, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Curtain call, Essex Junction, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Curtain call, Essex Junction, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Returning backstage, Essex Junction, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Returning backstage, Essex Junction, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

From “Carnival Strippers”

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

End of the lot, Essex Junction, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

End of the lot, Essex Junction, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Tami playing to the crowd, Barton, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Tami playing to the crowd, Barton, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Lena, Barton, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Lena, Barton, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Lena in the motel, Barton, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Lena in the motel, Barton, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Shortie on the Bally, Barton, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Shortie on the Bally, Barton, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

The Managers, Essex Junction, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

The Managers, Essex Junction, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Before the show, Tunbridge, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Before the show, Tunbridge, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Lulu and Mitzi, Tunbridge, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Lulu and Mitzi, Tunbridge, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Tentful of marks, Tunbridge, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Tentful of marks, Tunbridge, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Playing strong, Tunbridge, VT, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

Playing strong, Tunbridge, VT, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Between shows, Fryeberg, ME, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Between shows, Fryeberg, ME, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

The dressing room, Fryeburg, ME, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

The dressing room, Fryeburg, ME, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Larry and his girl, Fryeburg, ME, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

Larry and his girl, Fryeburg, ME, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Sammy, Essex Junction, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Sammy, Essex Junction, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Lena's first day, Essex Junction, VT, 1973, From “Carnival Strippers”

Lena's first day, Essex Junction, VT, 1973

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Mitzi, Tunbridge, VT, 1974, From “Carnival Strippers”

Mitzi, Tunbridge, VT, 1974

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Coffee, Carlisle, PA, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

Coffee, Carlisle, PA, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Ginger, Carlisle, PA, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

Ginger, Carlisle, PA, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

From “Carnival Strippers”

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

The Star, Tunbridge, VT, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

The Star, Tunbridge, VT, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Extra Girl, Fryeburg, ME, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

Extra Girl, Fryeburg, ME, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

New girl, Tunbridge, VT, 1975, From “Carnival Strippers”

New girl, Tunbridge, VT, 1975

From “Carnival Strippers”
11.5 x 17.5” silver gelatin print

Edition of 10

Press Release

Susan Meiselas
Carnival Strippers

January 11 - February 24. The Art Show. February 28 - March 4.

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.