This exhaustive monograph of Susan Meiselas will be released in
occasion of the retrospective that will take place at Tapies
Foundation in Barcelone, Jeu de Paume in Paris and SFMOMA in San
Francisco. Mediations is published by Damiani/Jeu de
Paume/Fondation Tapies. This exhibition and monograph propose a
selection of works from the 1970s to today which reveal the
particular approach of Susan Meiselas toward to the underlying
reasons for making photographs, how the image concerns it's subject
as much as the photographer and the role that these images can have
at different levels in society and particularly in photojournalism.
She questions the relationship between the image and the subject in
such a way as to include the people portrayed in the image in the
process of the making. There is nothing systematic in her approach:
each work expresses in a very strong manner that context is vital
to the understanding of photography. Therefore her work is specific
to the persons portrayed, to the notion of community to which they
belong and to the locality of the geographic and political
territories that the artist addresses. The way of the showing the
work is equally a part of the thought process. How does the
spectator behold the artwork? It is often comprised of many parts,
made in different media: each "layer" is used to document a level
of meaning. For Meiselas one should be able to grasp why the image
was taken. Both the subject of the image and the context in which
the images are shown are taken into account in the elaboration of
each project.
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