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Susan Meiselas — Nicaragua, History, Memory
Culture · Tuesday, October 27 · 11:00 · Paris
79 Rue des Archives, 75003 Paris, France
Images take on a life of their own, independent of those who create them. It was in Nicaragua that Susan Meiselas understood this. In 1978, the photographer, then 30, went there for the first time. She had previously studied image education at Harvard University, published an acclaimed first book on striptease performances, and joined Magnum. In that Central American country, a Marxist-inspired uprising was turning into a revolutionary war pitting the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) against the regime's National Guard…
