Background
Meiselas, Susan Clay was born on June 21, 1948 in Baltimore. Daughter of Leonard and Murrayl (Groh) Meiselas.
( Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I,...)
Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I, when the victorious powers carved up the Middle East, leaving the Kurds without a homeland. Today the Kurds, who live on land that straddles the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, are by far the largest ethnic group in the world without a state. Renowned photographer Susan Meiselas entered northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War to record the effects of Saddam Hussein’s campaigns against Iraq’s Kurdish population. She joined Human Rights Watch in documenting the destruction of Kurdish villages (some of which Hussein had attacked with chemical weapons in 1988) and the uncovering of mass graves. Moved by her experiences there, Meiselas began work on a visual history of the Kurds. The result, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, gives form to the collective memory of the Kurds and creates from scattered fragments a vital national archive. In addition to Meiselas’s own photographs, Kurdistan presents images and accounts by colonial administrators, anthropologists, missionaries, soldiers, journalists, and others who have traveled to Kurdistan over the last century, and, not to forget, by Kurds themselves. The book’s pictures, personal memoirs, government reports, letters, advertisements, and mapsprovide multiple layers of representation, juxtaposing different orders of historiographical evidence and memories, thus allowing the reader to discover voices of the Kurds that contest Western notions of them. In its layering of narratives—both textual and photographic—Kurdistan breaks new ground, expanding our understanding of how images can be used as a medium for historical and cultural representation. A crucial repository of memory for the Kurdish community both in exile and at home, this new edition appears at a time when the world’s attention has once again been drawn to the lands of this little-understood but historically consequential people.
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(During the summers of 1973, 1974, and 1975, Susan Meisela...)
During the summers of 1973, 1974, and 1975, Susan Meiselas photographed and interviewed the women who performed in 'girl shows' in small town carnivals across New England. It was based on this body of work that she was admitted as a peer to the prestigious Magnum Photos agency in 1976, the same year in which Carnival Strippers was originally published. The frank portrayal of women on the fringes of society was pioneering and laudatory. In introducing the work, Meiselas states, "The recognition of this world is not the invention of it. I wanted to present an account of the girl show that portrayed what I saw and revealed how the people involved felt about what they were doing." Excerpts of interviews wind their way throughout the gritty, black-and-white images; a cd of voice recordings is included at the back.
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(A pictorial record of the period following 1973 when the ...)
A pictorial record of the period following 1973 when the government of Salvador Allende was overthrown. The Chilean photographers, whose work is reproduced here for the first time, worked for small magazines and underground newspapers, risking their lives to document the brutality of the "Pinochet years". 76 photographs.
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Meiselas, Susan Clay was born on June 21, 1948 in Baltimore. Daughter of Leonard and Murrayl (Groh) Meiselas.
Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College, 1970. Master of Education, Harvard University, 1971. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Parsons School/New School, New York City, 1988.
Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Art Institute of Boston, 1996. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Trinity College, Hartford, 1999.
Photographic consultant, Community Resources Institute, New York City, 1972-1974; artist-in-residence, South Carolina. Arts Commission, 1974-1975; photography teacher, New School, New York City, 1975; free-lance photographer, Magnum Photos, New York City, since 1976; vice president, Magnum Photos, New York City, 1986-1991.
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(During the summers of 1973, 1974, and 1975, Susan Meisela...)
( Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I,...)
(A pictorial record of the period following 1973 when the ...)
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