Strip-tease forain

Susan Meiselas
Strip-tease forain

Photographs: Susan Meiselas

Publisher: Chêne

150 pages

Pictures: 73

Year: 1976

Comments: Softcover, 225 x 260 mm. First French edition, 1976. Black & white photographs. Text in French. Little edge wear on cover and 2 smalls bumped from one slightly affect the lower right corner of the first half of the book pages. Otherwise in good condition. Binding is fine. Included in The Book of 101 Books by Andrew Roth, page 238/239 ; The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, page 312/313.

Susan Meiselas's first photobook, dedicated to women exhibiting on trestles or in tents at fairs in remote corners of the United States.

From 1972 to 1975, I spent my summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As I followed the girl shows from town to town, I photographed the dancers' public performances as well as their private lives. I also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers. Susan Meiselas