Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1948. The author of eleven photobooks, she joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has served as President of the Magnum Foundation since its founding in 2007. Mediations, the most recent catalogue of her work, was published in 2018 in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition, Susan Meiselas: Mediations, which was on view at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mediations was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019). She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), Hasselblad Foundation Prize (1994), and Guggenheim Fellowship (2015). She lives in New York City. Susan Meiselas has had two solo exhibitions at Higher Pictures: Prince Street Girls, 1976 - 1979 (2017) and Revisiting Nicaragua, 1978 - 1979 (2020).
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- NICARAGUA. Esteli. 1979. Sandinistas at the walls of the Esteli National Guard headquarters.
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- NICARAGUA. Masaya. 1986. Mural featuring Nicaraguan heroes.
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- NICARAGUA. Masaya. 1991. Wall previously painted with "Molotov Man", blackened before election campaign.
Image Reference
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- NICARAGUA. Jinotepe. A funeral procession for assassinated student leaders. Demonstrators carry a photograph of Arlen Siu, an FSLN guerrilla fighter killed in the mountains three years earlier.
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- Jinotepe, NIcaragua. FSLN mural celebrating heroism of Arlen Siu defaced.
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- NICARAGUA. Managua. Car of a Somoza informer burning in Managua.
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- NICARAGUA. Cuidad Sandino. Searching everyone traveling by car, truck, bus or foot.
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- NICARAGUA. Monimbo. Wall graffiti on Somoza supporter’s house burned in Monimbo, asking "Where is Norman Gonzalez? The dictatorship must answer." (NICARAGUA, page 15) ©Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
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- NICARAGUA. Diriamba. Marketplace.
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- NICARAGUA. Mayasa. 1979. Guard patrol beginning house-to-house search for Sandinistas.
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- NICARAGUA. Managua. "Cuesta del Plomo", hillside outside Managua, a well known site of many assassinations carried out by the National Guard.
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- NICARAGUA. June, 1978. Youths practice throwing contact bombs in forest surrounding Monimbo.
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- NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard.
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- NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Street fighter.
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- NICARAGUA. Masaya. September, 1978. Returning home.
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- NICARAGUA. Masaya. Muchacho withdrawing from commercial district of Masaya after three days of bombing.
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- NICARAGUA. Esteli. September 20, 1978. Fleeing the bombing to seek refuge outside of Esteli. The Nicaraguan National Guard captured the city of Esteli which was held by Sandinesta rebels.
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- NICARAGUA. Monimbo. 1979. Monimbo woman carrying her dead husband home to be buried in their backyard.
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- NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. 1979. Sandinista barricade during last days of fighting in Matagalpa.
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