Board_Advisors_etc 3..5

1996 Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History; The Menil Col-
lection; Houston, Texas
1996 Facing History; Centre Georges Pompidou; Paris,
France
1998 Art in Freedom; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen;
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2000 Picturing the Modern Amazon; New Museum of Con-
temporary Art; New York, New York
2001 Photoworks in Progress; Nederlands Fotomuseum;
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2002 Open City: Street Photographs since 1950; Museum of
Modern Art; Oxford, England
2003 Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and
Video; International Center of Photography; New York,
New York

Selected Works

Lena’s First Day, Essex Junction, Vermont, 1973
Lena After the Show, Essex Junction, Vermont, 1973
The Girl Show, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1974
Children rescued from a house destroyed by 1,000-pound
bomb dropped in Managua. They died shortly After
1978–9
‘‘Cuesta del Plomo’’ Hillside outside Managua, a well-known
site of many assassinations carried out by the National
Guard. People searched here daily for persons, 1978

Traditional Indian dance mask from the town of Monimbo,

adopted by the rebels during the fight against Somoza to

conceal identity, 1978

Further Reading

Meiselas, Susan.Carnival Strippers. New York: Farrar,

Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Meiselas, Susan.Nicaragua: From June 1978–July 1979.

New York: Pantheon, 1981.

Meiselas, Susan, ed.El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photo-

graphers. UK: Writers and Readers, 1983.

Meiselas, Susan, ed.Chile From Within,1973–1988. New

York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Meiselas, Susan.Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History. New

York: Random House, 1997.

Meiselas, Susan.Pandora’s Box. London and New York:

Trebruk and Magnum Editions, 2001.

Meiselas, Susan.Encounters with the Dani: Stories from the

Baliem Valley. New York: ICP and Gottingen, Ger-

many: Steidl, 2003.

Meiselas, Susan.Carnival Strippers(revised edition). New

York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Gettin-

gen, Germany: Steidl, 2003.

Stevenson, Sara.Magna Brava: Magnum’s Women Photo-

graphers. New York: Prestel, 1999.

Susan Meiselas, The Girl Show, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1974.
[#Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos]

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