A ground breaking photo documentary project… Revisiting Susan Meiselas’ Riveting 1970s “Carnival Strippers” Series | AnOther

In the summers of 1972 until 1975, Susan Meiselas travelled across New England, photographing “carnival strippers”: girls and women between the ages of 17 to 35 who worked out of a “travelling box” – a truck that opened onto the public or private areas of rural state fairs. Beyond the agricultural facade of the carnivals, these women – and their bodies – were the main attraction.