P
rince Street Girls
Susan Meiselas
Yellow Magic Books
English
Softcover
Edition 79/200
25 pages
220 x 160 mm
2013
ISBN Not Available
This is a very rare edition of Prince Street Girls by Susan Meiselas, a book adapted from Meiselas’ large collection of photographs of young girls in a Little Italy neighbourhood in New York City between 1976 and 1979 taken by Meiselas. This is a republishing of Print Street Girls. It was published by Yellow Magic Books in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Prince Street Girls’ at Galerie Catherine et André Hug in 2013 in Paris. This particular edition of the photobook has the following names on the pink dust jacket, which covers the title: ‘Lisa & Jojo & Dee & Pina & Carol & Frankie & Julia & Phylis & Tina & Roseann & Roe’.
“In 1975, nearly thirty-five years ago, I was riding a bicycle through my neighborhood in Little Italy when suddenly a blast of light flashed into my eyes, blinding me for a moment. Its source was a group of girls fooling around with a mirror trying to reflect the sun on my face. That was the day I met the Prince Street Girls, the name I gave the group that hung out on the nearby corner almost every day. The girls were from small Italian-American families and they were almost all related. I was the stranger who didn’t belong. Little Italy was mostly for Italians then.
The project Prince Street Girls began as a series of incidental encounters. They’d see me coming and call out, “Take a picture! Take a picture!” At the beginning I was making pictures just to share with them. If we met in the market or at the pizza parlor, they would reluctantly introduce me to their parents but I was never invited into any of their homes. I was their secret friend, and my loft became a kind of hideaway when they dared to cross the street, which their parents had forbidden.”
– Susan Meiselas, 2013
About the Artist
Susan Meiselas (b. 1948), one of the leading photographers in the humanistic-documentary tradition, has portrayed people in their struggle for social justice and human dignity, as seen in her powerful work from the revolutions of Nicaragua and El Salvador, which reflect a deep sense of engagement. In Susan Meiselas’ photographs there is a tension in the interrelation between form and social content
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About the Publisher
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