Carnival Strippers
Gottingen: Steidl, 2003.
ISBN: 3882439548
Condition: Fine. Complete with CD
hardcover
Second edition.
164 pages, 78 tritone plates, 11 x 9.5 inches
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 the shows 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.Meiselas frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. 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.This revised edition contains a new selection of Meiselas black-and-white photographs together with the original excerpts from the interviews as well as an Audio-CD with a collage of voices from many participants and a 1977 interview with the photographer is included. Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English. Item #2006
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