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Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua 

March 23, 2017 
by Susan Meiselas 
Still considered by some to be Meiselas’s signature work, these startling color photographs of the lead-up to the overthrow of the Somoza regime and subsequent Sandinista victory were widely distributed in the international press and published in the 1981 book Nicaragua. A landmark in war photography for its pioneering and controversial use of color, Meiselas’s work in Nicaragua remains a paragon of engaged, subjective documentary coverage.

The initial set of photographs taken in 1978–79 have become a touchstone to which Meiselas has repeatedly returned to explore issues at the core of her practice: her ongoing relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory.

From March 23rd, 2017
To May 7th, 2017

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