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Meryl Meisler portrait

Meryl Meisler

Meryl Meisler is a photographer who lives in New York City. She has received fellowships from NYFA, Puffin Foundation, Time Warner, Artists Space, CETA, China Institute, and Japan Society. She’s exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Historical Society, Dia Center NYC, MASS MoCA, The New Museum, The Whitney Museum, and in public spaces such as Grand Central Terminal and throughout the NYC subway system. Her work is in the collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France, Brooklyn Historical Society, Library of Congress, Islip Art Museum, Columbia University, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Meryl is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre Publishing, 2014) and Purgatory and Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia and the City (Bizarre Publishing, 2015).

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In Purgatory and Paradise photographer Meryl Meisler juxtaposes her family life on Long Island with disco-era New York in the 1970s.

Coming of Age in Long Island and Disco-Era New York City

In Purgatory and Paradise, photographer Meryl Meisler juxtaposes her family life on Long Island with disco-era New York in the 1970s.

By Meryl Meisler Sep 28, 2015

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