Susan Meiselas

by Lubben, Kristen

• ISBN13: 9783865216854
• ISBN10: 3865216854
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

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 80s, Meiselass process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with pivotal 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 insistent engagement with these concerns has positioned her as a leading voice in the debate on contemporary documentary practice.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	p. 6
Preface	p. 8
Community: Portraits and voices	p. 10
Kristen Lubben: An interview with Susan Meiselas: 1971-1978	p. 12
Caught Looking	p. 90
"Beyond our ever knowing": Susan Meiselas and the Necessitv of Return	p. 100
"An Amplitude That Information Lacks"	p. 107
Media: Resistance and Memory	p. 113
Kriston Lubbon: An interview with Susan Meiselas: 1978-2004	p. 116
Susan Meiselas: An Aritst Called	p. 210
The Death System	p. 220
Voyages: Transcript of a Film by Marc Karlin with Susan Meiselas	p. 223
Past Performing Future: Susan Meiselas's Reframing History	p. 232
Archives: Official Images and Buried Histories	p. 237
Kristen Lubben: An interview with Susan Meiselas: 1991-2008	p. 230
Entangled Documents: Visualized Histories	p. 330
Photography and the Limits of National Identity	p. 342
Chronology	p. 345
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