Lena on the Bally Box, Essex Junction, Vermont, from Carnival Strippers
Susan Meiselas
American, born 1948
Details
Title
Lena on the Bally Box, Essex Junction, Vermont, from Carnival Strippers
Artist/Maker
Susan Meiselas (American, born 1948)
Date
1973
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches Other (Sheet): 11 x 14 inches
Credit
Gift of Ron Beller and Jennifer Moses
Accession #
2007.73.1
On View
Currently not on view
"Carnival Strippers," Susan Meiselas's first major photographic essay focuses on the lives of women performing striptease in county fairs in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. From 1972 to 1975 Meiselas spent summers photographing and interviewing her subjects while teaching photography in New York public schools during the remainder of the year. She followed the “girl shows” from town to town, documenting the women’s public performances as well as their private lives. Meiselas’s frank description of the lives of these performers brought a rarely-seen world to public attention. Produced during the feminist movement, "Carnival Strippers" also explores the feminine identity struggle that characterized this complex era of change.
Image Copyright
© Susan Meiselas/ Magnum Photos
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