Susan Meiselas
photographer
and journalist
Susan Meiselas is an award winning documentary photographer best known for her work in Central America.
In 1978, Meiselas received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for "outstanding courage and reporting" for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua that same year. In 1992 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Her photographs have been published worldwide in the pages of Time, The New York Times, Paris Match and Life.
She is the author of two monographs: Carnival Strippers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976) and Nicaragua (Pantheon, 1981). She is the editor of Learn to See (Polaroid Foundation, 1975), El Salvador: Work of 30 Photographers (Writers & Readers,1983), and Chile From Within (W.W. Norton, 1990).
Meiselas is a member of Magnum photos and lives in New York City.
Susan Meiselas berättade och visade diabilder från Kurdistan samt signerade sin bok Kurdistan - In the Shadow of History på Kurdiska Biblioteket, onsdagen den 4 mars 1998 kl 18.00
Kurdistan
- In the Shadow of History
Kurdistan, In the Shadow of History, traces the history of the Kurds by presenting photographs and accounts by colonial administrators, anthropologists, missionaries, journalists, and others who have traveled to Kurdistan over the last century. The book’s mode of organization is influenced by collage, and its environment juxtaposes different orders of historiographic evidence.
Pictures, personal memoirs, government reports, letters, advertisements, maps, etc. all vie with each other and present different constructs. The reader discovers the voices of the Kurds that contest the Western representations of them.