Carnival Strippers by Susan Meiselas. Second edition (2003, published by Steidl).. Large format hardback in fine condition. no markings, please see pics for reference
About
From 1972 to 1975, I spent my summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As I followed the girl shows from town to town, I photographed the dancers’ public performances as well as their private lives. I also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers. At the first exhibition of the work, and later in the book Carnival Strippers, Meiselas included the voices of the people she photographed, presenting their words alongside portraits and documentary shots of them. The women brought me in, and the book later brought a hidden world to public attention, sharing a complex story from the inside out.
