Interview with Meryl Meisler

This month, you subscribers are in for a real treat. We spoke with Meryl Meisler to discuss a couple of topics that are sure to pique your interest. Meryl talked about the historic street photos she took in New York during the disco era and we also spent some time talking talked about her latest (and equally facinating) projects. Recently, Meryl has been devoting her time to working on printing some of her best works as an artist-in-residence at both Yaddo and Light Work. What she has learned in the process has been nothing less than transformative.

Meryl is enthusiastic and joyful about her photography and she shared some valuable insights on the process of printing your images that just might inspire you to take on the task yourself. Listen in on our conversation by clicking the audio player below:

A Selection of Meryl’s Photos

Wild West Cowgirl

Studio 54 Reject with Judi Jupiter

Muscle Boy – Little Rascals

Miranda Senator

Plaid Suit

Felipe Rose Car

G-d Bless America

Mr. Katz at The Window

Paradise Garage – Jungle Party

Photographing On The Bowery

Meryl’s Links

Meryl’s Upcoming Workshop

6 Day Photo Expedition with Meryl in Cuba

Meryl Meisler

Meryl Meisler is a NY based photographer was born in the South Bronx and raised in Massapequa, NY. She is the daughter of a commercial printer and an employment “head hunter”, and granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants from Russia, Hungary and Galicia. Upon graduating from SUNY College at Bu‚alo and University of Wisconsin at Madison, Meryl moved to NYC in 1975. She’s worked as a freelance illustrator and photographer, taught art in the NYC Public Schools . Meryl has received fellowships and grants from New York Foundation from the Arts, The Pu°n Foundation, Time Warner, Artists Space, C.E.T.A., the China Institute and the Japan Society. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Historical Society, Dia Center NYC, MASS MoCA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art and in public spaces such as Grand Central Terminal, The South Street Seaport and throughout the NYC subway system. Her work is in the permanent collections of AT&T, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Brooklyn Historical Society, Library of Congress, Islip Art Museum, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Pﬁzer, Reuters, Columbia University, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and within artist books in the collections of Carnegie Mellon, Centre Georges Pompidou, Chrysler Museum, Metronome, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Meryl is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre Publishing 2014) and Paradise & Purgatory SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (Bizarre Publishing 2015).