Statement by the photographer, Susan MEISELAS
"The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation." (© Susan MEISELAS)Background information
"Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Susan MEISELAS. An American photographer best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s - including the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador - her process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with essential questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media and the relationship of images to history and memory. Her tenacious engagement with these matters has made her a leading commentator in the debate on contemporary photojournalism. Content
With 200 plates and contributions from some of photography's finest theorists - among them David Levi Strauss, Lucy Lippard, Kristen Lubben, Jan-Erik Lundstrom and Allan Sekula - this volume, In History' gives an overview of the enormously varied and courageous work by Susan MEISELAS to date." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Steidl Verlag, 2008)
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 356 pp., color ills., text language: English
Deutsch
English