Second Edition of Carnival Strippers by Susan Meiselas. Medium format signed and dated hardback in board slipcase, numbered 68/75 in a limited edition. Includes an original 10″ x 8″ silver gelatin prints signed numbered and inscribed by Meiselas on verso.
About
From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As she followed the shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers.
Meiselas frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the womens movement,Carnival Strippersreflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change.
