Magnum Photos

Exhibition - Backstage 

Magnum Photographers 

Magnum Gallery, Paris
4 July – 6 September, 2014


The exhibition ‘Backstage’, brings together nine Magnum photographers, featuring Susan Meiselas with her series "Carnival Strippers" 1972-1975 which traces the itinerant life of women who performed stripteases for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. Dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives.
In her series Pandora's Box, high-class Manhattan S & M club in the 90s, Susan Meiselas documents the behind the scenes, role-playing "vacations from reality," where... 

Susan Meiselas 1974

USA. Tunbridge, Vermont. 1974. Lulu and Debbie. 

Susan Meiselas 1975

USA. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 1975. Backstage. 

Susan Meiselas 1973

USA. Essex Junction, Vermont. 1973. Returning Backstage. 

Susan Meiselas 1973

USA. Essex Junction, Vermont. 1973. Curtain call. 

Susan Meiselas 1973

USA. Essex Junction, Vermont. 1973. Candy. 

Susan Meiselas 1975

USA. Fryeburg, Maine. 1975. Extra Girl. 

Susan Meiselas 1975

USA. Tunbridge, Vermont. 1975. New Girl. 

Susan Meiselas 1975

USA. Tunbridge, Vermont. 1975. The Star. 

Susan Meiselas 1995

USA. New York City. 1995. Pandora's Box, Mistress Rose eavesdropping.... 

Harry Gruyaert 2008

FRANCE. Paris. Bastille opera's backstage. 2008. 

Harry Gruyaert 2009

FRANCE. Paris. 2009. Garnier Opera auditorium. 

Eve Arnold 1952

USA. New York City. Marlene DIETRICH at the recording studios... 

Guy Le Querrec 1979

FRANCE. Paris. 10th arrondissement. 10 Rue de l'Echiquier. Backstage,... 

Nicolas Tikhomiroff 1961

FRANCE. Paris. 1961. Edith Piaf before a performance at the Olympia... 

Constantine Manos 1958

USA. Boston, Massachusetts. 1958. The Boston Symphony Orchestra.... 

Eve Arnold 1961

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Knightsbridge. One of four girls sharing... 

Eve Arnold 1968

Harlem, New York. A model who celebrates the afro and the slogan... 

Dennis Stock 1958

USA. 1958. Louis ARMSTRONG's dressing room.
In his room, before... 

Dennis Stock 1958

USA. 1958. Philadelphia, PA. Louis ARMSTRONG. Last minute of... 

Dennis Stock 1958

USA. Philadelphia. 1958. The jazz musician Louis ARMSTRONG in... 

Dennis Stock 1958

USA. Philadelphia, PA. 1958. Louis ARMSTRONG, American trumpet... 

Dennis Stock 1958

USA. 1958. Louis ARMSTRONG, trumpet player, singer, composer... 

Thomas Hoepker 1966

GREAT BRITAIN. London. 1966. World heavyweight champion Muhammad... 

Leonard Freed 1971

USA. New York. 1971. Transvestites. 

Leonard Freed 1971

USA. New York city. Backstage at a performance of the Cockettes,... 

Leonard Freed 1971

USA. New York. 1971. Backstage at a tranvestite show. 
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