Susan Meiselas

Shortie at Work, South Carolina

1973

Young nude woman sits with legs spread on a ledge while three people watch from the foreground.
Young nude woman sits with legs spread on a ledge while three people watch from the foreground.

Susan Meiselas, Shortie at Work, South Carolina, 1973. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm) Image: 7 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (19.2 × 28.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust 2000.224. © Susan Meiselas, Magnum Photos, New York.

Recto

Not on view

Date
1973

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm) Image: 7 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (19.2 × 28.7 cm)

Accession number
2000.224

Series
Carnival Strippers, 1972-1975

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust

Rights and reproductions
© Susan Meiselas, Magnum Photos, New York.

API
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