Carnival Strippers - Coffret En 2 Volumes : Carnival Strippers - Making Of - Wolf Sylvia

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Résumé :
... It's getting near show time. Don't be shy, take your hands out of your pockets, take your money out of your wallets. Get a little yellow ticket here. Go on in the inside. Rest your elbows on the stage and look up into the whole, the whole goddamn show. Show time ! Where they strip to please, not to tease ! " 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 carnivals 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. Excerpts from these interviews, along with over seventy of Meiselas's black-and-white photographs, were first published in the 1976 original edition of this book. Meiselas's frank depiction of the lives of carnival strippers - in both images and words - brought a hidden world to public attention. It also revealed the complicated emotions of the strippers whose printed comments express conflicting attitudes toward their work. Produced during the early years of the women's movement, Carnival Strippers reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change. In the fifty years since Meiselas began photographing the girl shows, attitudes toward documentary photography, public sexuality, and feminism have evolved, but the power of these pictures remains unchanged.

Biographie:
SUSAN MEISELAS is an award-winning documentary photographer, best known for her work in Central America. She joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for "outstanding courage and reporting" for her coverage of the 1978 insurrection in Nicaragua. She is the author of Nicaragua : June 1978-July 1979 (1981) . Kurdistan : In the Shadow of History (1997) . Pandora's Box (2001) . Encounters with the Dani (2003) : Prince Street Girls (2013) . and A Room of Their Own (2017). She has edited several collective works : Learn to See (1974) . El Salvador : The Work of Thirty Photographers (1983) . Chile from Within (1990) . Tar Beach (2020) . and most recently Eyes Open (2021). Meiselas was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1992. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015 and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her retrospective Mediations in 2019. SYLVIA WOLF is John S. Behnke Director of the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Previously she served as a curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Publications include The Digital Eye : Photographic Art in the Electronic Age (2010) . Polaroids : Mapplethorpe (2007) . Ed Ruscha and Photography (2004) . Michel Romer : The Space Between (2002) . Kenneth Josephson : A Retrospective (1999) . Julia Margaret Cameron's Women (1998) . Dieter Appell (1994) . and Focus : Five Women Photographers (1994). Wolf is Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in studio art, art history, and museum studies at Columbia University, NYU, and School of Visual Arts. She organized an exhibition of photographs, texts, and sound from Carnival Strippers for the Whitney in 2000. ABIGAIL SOLOMON-GODEAU is Professor Emerita, Dept. of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara, and lives and works in Paris. She is the author of Photography at the Dock : Essays on Photographic Histories, Institutions and Practices (1992) . Male Trouble : A Crisis in Representation (1997) . Chair à Canons : Photographie, discours, féminisme (2015) . Photography After Photography : Gender, Genre and History (2017) . She has written monographs on the artist Rosemary Laing (2011) and the Austrian artist Birgit Jörgenssen (co-authored with Gabriele Schor, 2013). Her essays on photography, eighteenth-and nineteenth-century visual art, feminism, and contemporary art have been widely anthologized and translated.