Susan Meiselas

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Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948 in Baltimore , Maryland , USA ) is an American photographer .

Life

After studying visual communication, which she graduated from Harvard with a Master of Arts degree, she taught film and photography in New York schools. During this time, she created her first larger photo report. For three consecutive summers she photographed women striptease dancers at New England fairs . She put the photographs from this work together in the book Carnival Strippers , which appeared in 1976.

Through the mediation of Gilles Peress , she became a member of the Magnum photography agency in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer ever since.

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In Nicaragua she documented the Sandinista uprising against President Somoza . The resulting book Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979 became her second monograph. In 1981 she visited a village that had been destroyed by the Salvadoran army and made recordings that documented the El Mozote massacre . In this context she worked with the journalists Raymond Bonner and Alma Guillermoprieto .

She subsequently published the books El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers , to which she also contributed some photographs, and Chile from Within , which shows the work of Chilean photographers under the Pinochet regime . In the 1990s she devoted herself to the history of Kurdistan . She collected photographs, documents and stories from a period of over a hundred years and published them, supplemented by her own photographs, in the book Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History .

In 2001 she wrote her book Pandora's Box , a report about a New York sex club specializing in sado masochism.

Her book Encounters with the Dani , 2003, explores the consequences of the encounters between the Dani , a traditionally natural ethnic group in New Guinea , with representatives of the western world.

In 2016 that showed Photography Forum Frankfurt with Carrying the Past, forward Meiselas' first solo exhibition in Germany.

reception

Susan Meiselas' work has been exhibited in numerous galleries around the world, including Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London and New York.

Her awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal and the Hasselblad Foundation Award .

In 1992 she received a MacArthur Foundation grant .

In 2019 she was awarded the "Women In Motion" prize sponsored by the Kering Group during the Rencontres d'Arles . Also in 2019 she won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize .

Movie

In addition to Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti, she also co-directed and co-produced two films, Living at Risk , 1985 and Pictures from a Revolution , 1991.

Photo books

  • 1976 Carnival Strippers
  • 1981 Nicaragua, June 1978 - July 1979
  • 1983 El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers
  • 1990 Chile from Within
  • 1997 Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History ISBN 0679423893
  • 2001 Pandora's Box
  • 2003 Encounters with the Dani

literature

  • Maria Zinser: Susan Meiselas. In: Photographers at the front. From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus, Munich a. a .: Prestel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5863-5 , pp. 147-168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Susan Meiselas in: Answers
  2. ↑ IMDB
  3. ^ Exhibition text by the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
  4. ↑ Sean O'Hagan: 'Especially relevant': Susan Meiselas wins 2019 Deutsche Börse photography prize . In: The Guardian . May 16, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed November 25, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Meiselas, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland , USA