Carnival Strippers.
Meiselas, Susan. Carnival Strippers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1976).
Oblong 8vo.; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs; black endpapers; silver coated cloth, embossed on front board and spine; pictorial dust jacket; lightly edge wear; minor bumping at spine and corners. In a specially made slipcase.
First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed by Meiselas on the half title page: For Paul / Sharing the secret of my “working women” / Susan Meiselas / 5/21/98.
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 the 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.
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