Meryl Meisler (born 1951) is an American photographer. In the 1970s she photographed in New York City nightclubs and in the 1980s she photographed residents of Bushwick, Brooklyn, while working as a public school teacher there.

Life and work

Meisler was raised on Long Island, New York and went to college in Wisconsin in the midwest. She moved to New York City in 1975 and in the 1970s photographed nightlife in discotheques there such as

Studio 54 Studio 54 is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater and former nightclub at 254 West 54th Street (Manhattan), 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Opened as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, it served ...

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and Hurrah. Between 1981 and 1994 she taught at a public middle school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York and photographed the area's residents.

Publications

*''A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick''. Brooklyn, NY: Bizarre, 2014. . With an introduction by Catherine Kirkpatrick. Essays by Vanessa Mártir and Meisler. Poetry by

Emanuel Xavier Emanuel Xavier (born May 3, 1970), is an American poet, spoken word artist, author, editor, screenwriter, and LGBT, LGBTQ activist born and raised in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. Associated with the East Village, Manhattan arts scene in New Yor ...

. *''Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy 70s Suburbia & the City''. Brooklyn, NY: Bizarre, 2015. . With an introduction by Catherine Kirkpatrick. Essays by Ernest Drucker, Amy Leffler and Meisler. Poetry by Emanuel Xavier. * ''New York: Paradise Lost: Bushwick Era Disco''. Woodstock, NY: Parallel Pictures, 2021. . With an introduction by

James Panero James S. Panero (born December 15, 1975) is an American cultural critic and the executive editor of ''The New Criterion,'' a conservative culture journal. Early life Panero was born in New York City, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhatta ...

. Essays by Vanessa Mártir and Meisler. Poetry by Emanuel Xavier. * ''Street Walker'', Eyeshot, NY, 2024

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* 21st-century American photographers 20th-century American photographers American women photographers Photographers from the Bronx LGBTQ people from New York (state) American LGBTQ photographers 21st-century American women artists 1951 births Living people 20th-century American women {{US-photographer-stub