Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas
Meiselas in 2023
Born (1948-06-21) June 21, 1948 (age 76)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materSarah Lawrence College
Harvard University
OccupationPhotographer
Known forphotos of Sandinista National Liberation Front insurgents in the Nicaragua Revolution in the 1970s
Websitewww.susanmeiselas.com

Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for her 1970s photographs of war-torn Nicaragua and American carnival strippers.[1]

Meiselas has published several books of her own photographs and has edited and contributed to others. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Times, Time, GEO, and Paris Match. She received the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1979 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992.[2] In 2006, she was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship[3] and in 2019 the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.

After a relationship that spanned more than thirty years, she married filmmaker Richard P. Rogers[4] shortly before his death in 2001.[5]

  1. ^ "Photographer Susan Meiselas on documenting women's refuges". Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 21 My 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017
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  4. ^ "Richard Rogers, Harvard Film Teacher, 57". The New York Times. July 18, 2001. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  5. ^ Lambert, Craig (May 2009). "The Windmill Movie: Two filmmakers collaborate across the gulf between life and death". Harvard Magazine.