Susan Meiselas

I think that very early on, and principally this first project of Carnival Strippers, the sense of a photograph was a beginning point. It’s interesting you say “text” or “words” and actually for me it was sound. It was their voices, their very words, the way they said things. So in fact the first representation of that work, Carnival Strippers, was in an installation form with the sound in an open space floating above and around the photographs. So it was that tension between what the photograph itself could tell or reveal and what people know about their lives that I would not have access to except though these exchanges.

from Project MUSE

Martin Parr

Martin Parr was born in Surrey, England, in 1952. As a boy, his grandfather encouraged his interest in photography, and Parr went on to study it at Manchester Polytechnic. He has since worked on numerous photographic projects that flaunt his style which pokes and prods the moral atrophy and preposterousness of modern times.

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