TCF Ep. 576 - Meryl Meisler

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Meryl Meisler was born 1951 in the South Bronx and raised in North Massapequa, Long Island, NY. Meryl began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class taught by Cavalliere Ketchum at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975, Meryl returned to New York City and studied with Lisette Model, photographing her hometown and the city around her. After working as a freelance illustrator by day, Meryl frequented and photographed the infamous New York Discos. Meisler began releasing large bodies of previously unseen work. Meryl’s first monograph, A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre, 2014), received international acclaim. The book juxtaposes her zenith of disco photos with images of the burned-out yet beautiful neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn in the 1980s. Her latest monograph, New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco (Parallel Pictures Press 2021). Meryl lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, NY, continuing the photographic memoir she began in 1973 – a uniquely American story, sweet and sassy with a pinch of mystery. ClampArt represents her work. Websites Mery Meisler Tequila Minsky Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Curious Society Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club.
0:14.5	Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography, charcoal selects and delivers essential photo books to a worldwide community
0:23.7	of collectors. Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive
0:30.6	print to add to their collections. Join the club by visiting charcoal bookclub.com and use the promo code The Candrid Frame at checkout
0:40.5	and receive a 10% discount on your first membership payment.
0:48.5	Photographers record history, events both big and small.
0:53.3	The work that inspires me most is often the visual history of communities.
0:59.2	They are the stories of ordinary people and cultures that often don't find their way into history books,
1:06.5	but are just as important to document and memorialize.
1:11.2	Merrill Meisler's new book, Paradise Lost and Found,
1:15.0	does a unique thing by examining different facets of New York during the 1980s.
1:21.1	Her photographs capture the everyday streets and neighborhoods of Bushwick
1:25.5	and the light life of the disco era.
1:29.0	It brings a blend of people and stories that reveal a very personal glimpse into a unique
1:35.6	time in the life of a very unique city.
1:39.6	This is Ibadian X, and this is The Candid Frame.
1:43.6	Music is Ibody and X, and this is The Candid Frame.
1:49.5	So how is your trip?
1:50.9	It was amazing.
1:53.0	I can't believe it happened, you know?
1:53.6	Yeah.
2:04.1	Just such a privilege and to be, to have the show, to be invited over, to they got a grant to bring me over exhibit I mean I've never been in Berlin I haven't taught workshops in a long time it
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