Salon #9-Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben

24 February 2016: 10×10 Photobooks Salon
with Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben, moderated by Bryan Formhal and recorded for the LPV Show.

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Photographer Susan Meiselas and curator, Magnum Foundation Executive Director Kristen Lubben have been collaborating on photography publications since the release of Susan’s artist’s book Encounters with the Dani in 2003. Five years later, they conceived the career survey and critical essay collection Susan Meiselas: In History in conjunction with a major retrospective at the International Center of Photography. The publication went on to win the Rencontres d’Arles Historical Book Award and the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award. Susan has a long history of bookmaking in her own practice, beginning with the seminal photobooks Carnival Strippers (1976) and Nicaragua (1981), and including her archival, curatorial work in the historical compilation Kurdistan (1997).

Susan and Kristen continue their work together on the Magnum Foundation Legacy Series, a collection of illustrated biographies on the lives and works of Magnum photographers. The first book in the series presents Eve Arnold, with future releases showcasing Bruce Davidson, Inge Morath, and Josef Koudelka. Other collaborative publishing ventures include Larry Towell’s Afghanistan, and the forthcoming Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition by 2014 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grantee photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black.

Bryan Formhals, host of The LPV Show podcast and author of Photographers’ Sketchbooks, discussed with Susan and Kristen their ongoing publishing activities. Also making a “cameo appearance” on the podcast was surprise guest and Aperture editor Lesley Martin, who collaborated with Susan and Kristen on the Edmund Clark/Crofton Black and Larry Towell books. Check out more details about the podcast on the LPV Show website.

David Solo, 10×10 board member extraordinaire, hosted the the event at his apartment in Brooklyn.