Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She joined Magnum photos and has worked as a freelance photographer since 1976. She is known for documentation of human right issues in Latin America. Meiselas documented issues that was happening around her.
Her first major project was Carnival Strippers. This project that she would photograph and interview women who preformed from small town carnivals. She would follow them town to town. She would document the public performances and the private lives of the dancers. She taped interview of the dance, the show managers and the paying customers. The woman she met ranged from the age of 17- 35.
Another project that she did was the Prince Street Girls. This project was about how she met the prince street girls. A group of girls that hung out nearby a corner almost every day. This girls were from small Italian American Families, they were almost all related. She started to hang out with these girls after she was almost blinded by them with a mirror that was shining this sun into her face when she was ridding her bike pass them. Susan was never invited into any of their house because she was different from them. She was their secret friend.
This project was was just her taking photo of them but then it turn to her capturing them growing up.
I think her work is very interesting. She start to do photography in college then it turned into a career . She started out with two projects that were very simple. Her first photography project was documenting her neighbor, but now she is traveling the world and documenting important events that are happening in the word.
Good narrative about her work, but no sense of the breadth of her projects. This work is very early and does not inform her entire career, she is very prominent, but through what projects and what kind of work...Magnum does't accept just anyone...
ReplyDeleteNo comments re how you feel she can inform your work...