Meiselas, Susan - In History (New in plastic!)

Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Susan Meiselas. An American photographer is best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 80s--including the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador--Meiselas' process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with essential questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use, and circulation of her images in the media and the relationship of images to history and memory. Meiselas is under no illusions about the dual nature of the photographer's role as witness: "The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation." Her tenacious engagement with these matters has made her a leading commentator in the debate on contemporary photojournalism. With 200 plates and contributions from some of photography's finest theorists--among them David Levi Strauss, Lucy Lippard, Kristen Lubben, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, and Allan Sekula--this volume gives an overview of Meiselas' enormously varied and courageous work to date.

Susan Meiselas (Baltimore (Maryland), June 21, 1948), is an American photographer.
After her studies in visual communication, which Meiselas obtained at Harvard University with the title of Master of Arts, she taught film and photography at various New York schools. At that time the first large photo shoot was created. In three consecutive summers she photographed women who worked as striptease dancers at annual fairs in New England. From these photos she compiled the book Carnival Strippers, which appeared in 1976.

Through the mediation of the French photographer Gilles Peress, she became a member of the photographers agency and collective Magnum Photos in 1976 and has since worked as a freelance photographer.

Publisher: Steidl/ICP; 1st edition (2008)
Language: English
Hardcover: 356 pages
ISBN-10: 3865216854
ISBN-13: 9783865216854
Item weight: 1650 g
Dimensions: 26,6 x 21 cm

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