Its source was a group of kids standing with a mirror, focusing the sun on my face, nearly blinding me. JoJo, Carol, and Lisa on the corner of Mott and Prince Street, Little Italy, New York Date: 1976. Artist: Susan Meiselas American, born 1948. Susan Meiselas: Four decades of photography featured in “Through a Woman’s Lens” exhibit. I was the stranger who didn’t belong. Note to Meiselas from Prince Street girls. Susan Meiselas Prince Street Girls, 1976 - 1979 April 29 - June 17, 2017 Higher Pictures 980 Madison Ave New York, NY 10075 higherpictures.com Whether it’s documenting the lives of showgirls or an unfolding revolution, Susan Meiselas' open-ended approach gives the images a life of their own. With the Prince Street Girls series, Susan Meiselas has accomplished something subtle but radical: a body of work devoted entirely to how women regard each other without the … Susan Meiselas is the Henry Wolf Photographer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in the spring of 2017. Susan Meiselas, who joined Magnum Photos in 1976, is also the president and co-founder of the Magnum Foundation. Witnessing the Female Gaze in Susan Meiselas’s Street Photos In Little Italy, on the train to Rockaway, and at Rockaway Beach. Little Italy was mostly for Italians then." New York City, USA. Susan Meiselas Pebbles, JoJo and Carol on the A Train, New York City, from the “Prince Street Girls” Series 1978 Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas is joined in conversation by writer, editor and deputy director of Frieze, Amy Sherlock to discuss the representation of women through the medium of … Meiselas had just finished her degree in visual education when she moved into her apartment on nearby Mott Street in Little Italy in 1975. Susan Meiselas, “Roseann on the way to Manhattan Beach, New York” (1978), from the series Prince Street Girls (1975–92) (© Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos). She is the starting point of my revisiting the Prince Street Girls. Photographs by Susan Meiselas, What was **normal everyday life** like for people living or more years ago? Susan Meiselas Prince Street Girls Pebbles, JoJo and Roe on Baxter Street. This is how life was for the "Prince Street Girls", as Susan Meiselas called a group of girls in her New York neighborhood after the street they lived on. From war and human rights to cultural identity and domestic violence, Susan Meiselas’s (American, b. The lecture will be held in English. One of the Prince Street Girls, Pebbles, moved from New York to Naples and now has a number of grandchildren. Born in 1948 and starting as … —Susan Meiselas 1948) work covers a wide range of subjects and countries. In 1992, she was named a MacArthur Fellow and most recently was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015). … About this artwork. That was the day I met the Prince Street Girls, the name I gave the group that hung out on the nearby corner almost every day. Susan Meiselas lives and works in New York. Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos.