{{Short description|American photographer}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Melissa|last1=Stern|access-date=2021-05-23|title=Disco-era Bushwick|url=https://hyperallergic.com/129677/meryl-meisler-a-tale-of-two-cities-disco-era-bushwick/|date=31 May 2014|website=Hyperallergic}}</ref>
==Life and work== Meisler was raised on Long Island, New York, and went to college in Wisconsin.<ref name="nytimes-gonzalez">{{cite news|first1=David|last1=Gonzalez|access-date=2021-05-23|title=A Photographer's Search for Joy in Uncertain Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/lens/a-photographers-search-for-joy-in-uncertain-times-new-york-album.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 March 2018|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She moved to New York City in 1975<ref name="nytimes-gonzalez"/> and in the 1970s photographed nightlife in discotheques there such as Studio 54, Paradise Garage and Hurrah.<ref name="nytimes-mahler">{{cite news|first1=Jonathan|last1=Mahler|access-date=2021-05-23|title=Stayin' Alive|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/nyregion/stayin-alive.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 June 2014|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first1=Genevieve|last1=Fussell|access-date=2021-05-23|title=Meryl Meisler's Disco Era|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/meryl-meislers-disco-era|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-23|title=Photographs from Bushwig, Brooklyn's Radical Festival of Drag|url=https://www.anothermanmag.com/life-culture/10952/photographs-from-bushwig-brooklyn-festival-of-drag-meryl-meiser-2019|website=AnotherMan|date=26 September 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-23|title=Lost Photographs of an Iconic Queer Discotheque|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/lost-photographs-of-an-iconic-queer-discotheque/|website=Vice|date=20 December 2018 }}</ref> Between 1981 and 1994 she taught at a public middle school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York<ref name="nytimes-mahler"/> and photographed the area's residents.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Holland|last1=Cotter|access-date=2021-05-23|title=The Latest Vibe Moved to Brooklyn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/arts/design/bushwick-open-studios.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 June 2012|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Publications== *''A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick''. Brooklyn, NY: Bizarre, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0991014118}}.<ref name="nytimes-mahler"/> With an introduction by Catherine Kirkpatrick. Essays by Vanessa Mártir and Meisler. Poetry by Emanuel Xavier. *''Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy 70s Suburbia & the City''. Brooklyn, NY: Bizarre, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0991014132}}. 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. {{ISBN|978-0578831824}}. With an introduction by James Panero. Essays by Vanessa Mártir and Meisler. Poetry by Emanuel Xavier. * ''Street Walker'', Eyeshot, NY, 2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=Street Walker by Meryl Meisler |url=https://www.eyeshotstreetphotography.com/shop/books/street-walker-by-meryl-meisler/ |access-date=2024-08-30 |website=Eyeshot {{!}} Street and Documentary Photography Publisher |language=en-US}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website|www.merylmeisler.com}}
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