Revised ed. Other editions: 1st ed. New York 1976; 2nd. ed. 2004. - [Text at Schaden.com:] From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As she followed the shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off. Meiselas' frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the women's movement, Carnival Strippers reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that charactrized a complex era of change.
Designed and produced by Browns, London. Printed by Butler and Tanner.Some of the pages bound into the book are made of the following latex, rubber, mylar-like materials: Text Arctic the Extreme 150gsm; Caliper 1mm natural rubber grade 'S.'; Lee colour filter mirror silver 271; Caliper 350-micron natural rubber grade 'S'; Polyurethane-coated polyester interlock; Lee colour filter bright pink 128; and Lee colour filter flame red 164. - From the publisher: "Mistress Raven heads a staff of 14 at Pandora's Box, a 4000-square-foot, high-class Manhattan sex club that bills itself as the "Disneyland of Domination." Interspersed with pages made of latex, rubber, colored gels, and other erotic materials, Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas's documentary photographs of the club's highly formalized rules and rituals, its role-playing "vacations from reality," reveal both the customers who frequent the club and the women who command them. First commissioned to accompany the Nick Broomfield documentary Fetishes, Meiselas's Pandora's Box is a darkly captivating journey into a high-class sex club that specializes in sado-masochism."
Other editions: Revised ed. Göttingen 2003, 2nd rev. ed. 2004. - Illustrated with reproductions of Meiselas's photographs documenting the subculture of the stripper. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 06.2006.
Text engl. - Like Calle, Meiselas takes the retrospective monograph and turns it into a complex history, a diary, a meditation, and a great photobook. (Gerry Badger. In: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/1646009/top). - Check entry. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 04.2012.
Text engl. - This publication waas produced in conjunction with the exhibition „Strangers: The fist ICP Triennial of Photography and Video“, 13.09.-30.11.2003. - „Susan Meiselas setzt in diesem Band die verschiedensten mündlichen und visuellen Spuren von Begegnungen mit den Dani zusammen, den indigenen Einwohnern der Hochebenen West-Neuguineas, zusammen. Ihre Recherchen umfassten die letzten sechzig Jahre, seit der »Entdeckung« der Dani. Der fragmentarische, stark subjektive Überblick, der sich dadurch ergibt, setzt sich zusammen aus Berichten von Missionaren, Kolonialisten, Anthropologen und modernen Öko-Touristen, von nahezu jedem, der das Baliem-Tal besucht und dadurch westlich geprägt hat.“ (Kat. Frölich & kaufmann, Berlin 02.2012).