Feb 19, 2015 - Sale 2374

Sale 2374 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
MEISELAS, SUSAN (1948- )
Select group of 4 studies from the seminal series "Carnival Strippers." Silver prints, 7 5/8x11 3/8 inches (19.4x28.9 cm.), each with Meiselas' signature, in pencil, on verso; in the original frames, each also with Meiselas' signature, in pencil, as well as the A.M. Sachs Gallery label, on the backing board. 1973-75

Additional Details

From the Collection of Frederick Morgan.
"Tami playing to the crowd, Barton, Vermont" (1974) "Playing strong, Tunbridge, Vermont" (1975) "Shortie at work, South Carolina" (variant) (1973) Unidentified image, possibly Shortie.

This trio of photographs was featured in Meiselas' first solo exhibition at the A.M. Sachs Gallery, in New York City.

Carnival Strippers (revised edition, 2003), pp. 37, 63, and 60 (variant).