FANTASTIC, WIDELY UNKNOWN publication of a great, highly underrated photo series from 1974 by Susan Meiselas, the great photographer from the legendary photo agency Magnum: "Porch Portraits. South Carolina and Mississippi". Signed and dated by Susan Meiselas in the year of the publication = VINTAGE SIGNATURE. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. New, mint, unread; only opened once for signature. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. "The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation." - Susan Meiselas - Kasseler Fotografie Festival. 2018. First edition, first printing. Softcover (as issued). 210 x 290 mm. 28 pages. Photos: Susan Meiselas. Text in english. Great photo publication in perfect condition - signed and dated by the artist in the year of the publication (VINTAGE). Subtitle: "Photopaper 33/34". This edition of Photopaper is a "master" of an unpublished body of work from well-known masters in photography. Susan Meiselas is well-known for many excellent photo publications like for "Carnival Strippers" (802 photo books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 626. Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 238/239. The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, page 312/313. 802 photo books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 599) and other classics in the history of photobook. "Susan Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, which were published widely throughout the world. In 1981, Pantheon published her second monograph, Nicaragua: June 1978 – July 1979 which was reprinted by Aperture, fall 2008. Meiselas served as an editor and contributor to the book El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photographers (Writers & Readers, 1983) and edited Chile from within (W.W. Norton, 1991) featuring work by photographers living under the Pinochet regime. She has co-directed two films: Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1986) and Pictures from a Revolution (1991) with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. In 1997, she completed a six-year project curating a 100-year photographic history of Kurdistan, and integrating her own work into the book entitled Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (Random House, 1997; reprinted by the University of Chicago Press, 2008). Meiselas then created the website, www.akaKURDISTAN.com, an online archive of collective memory; as well as an exhibition that launched at the Menil Collection in Houston, and traveled for eight years to several venues in the United States and Europe Her 2001 monograph, Pandora’s Box (Magnum Editions/Trebruk) which explores a New York S & M club, has been exhibited both at home and abroad. In 2003, Encounters with the Dani was featured as an installation in the International Center of Photography’s Triennial Strangers and co-published by ICP/Steidl Verlag. The book explores a 60-year history of outsiders’ discovery and interactions with the Dani, an indigenous people of the highlands of Papua in Indonesia. Meiselas has had one-woman exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Her work is included in American and international collections. Honorary awards of recognition include: the Robert Capa Gold Medal for “outstanding courage and reporting” by the Overseas Press Club for her work in Nicaragua (1979); the Leica Award for Excellence (1982); the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art (1985); the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for her coverage of Latin America (1994); the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize (1994) and most recently, the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005). In 1992, she was named a MacArthur Fellow." (Wikipedia)