Before the Show, Tunbridge, Vermont, from the project Carnival Strippers
Susan Meiselas, American, born 1948
negative 1973; print 2012
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Marina and Andrew E. Lewin, Class of 1981
2012.18.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower center: Before the Show / Tunbridge, Vermont / 1974; signed, in graphite, lower right: Susan Meiselas
Course History
ARTH 17, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2013
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013
WGST 10, Sex, Gender, and Society, Zahra Ayubi, Fall 2014
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
SART 30/SART 75, Photography II/III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2022
SART 29.01, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Fall 2022
Studio Art 29.01, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2024
Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024
Studio Art 29.01, Studio Art 30.01, Studio Art 75.01, Photography I/II/III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2024
Studio Art 29.01, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
Capturing Innocence: Photography and the Construction of Childhood, a Student Curated Exhibition for Professor Katie Hornstein’s History of Photography, ARTH17, Spring 2013, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 26-September 8, 2013 .
Publication History
Kristen Lubben, editor, Susan Meiselas In History, New York: International Center of Photography and Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2008, p. 43.
Susan Meiselas, Carnival Strippers, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2003, p. 35.
Provenance
Susan Meiselas Photography, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2012.
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