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{{Short description|American photographer (born 1948)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Susan Meiselas | image = Susan Meiselas 01.jpg | caption = Meiselas in 2023 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|06|21}} | birth_place = [[Baltimore]], Maryland, U.S. | occupation = Photographer | alma_mater = [[Sarah Lawrence College]] <br> [[Harvard University]] | known_for = photos of [[Sandinista National Liberation Front]] insurgents in the [[Nicaragua Revolution]] in the 1970s | website = {{URL|www.susanmeiselas.com}} }} '''Susan Meiselas''' (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with [[Magnum Photos]] since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for her 1970s photographs of war-torn Nicaragua and American carnival strippers.<ref name="cooke-observer">"[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/21/susan-meiselas-women-self-awareness-womens-refuges-black-country-room-of-their-own-interview Photographer Susan Meiselas on documenting women's refuges]". Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 21 My 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017</ref> Meiselas has published several books of her own photographs and has edited and contributed to others. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]],'' and ''[[Paris Match]]''. She received the [[Robert Capa Gold Medal]] in 1979 and was named a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] in 1992.<ref name=":0" /> In 2006, she was awarded The [[Royal Photographic Society]]'s Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship<ref name=":1" /> and in 2019 the [[Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize]]. After a relationship that spanned more than thirty years, she married filmmaker Richard P. Rogers<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/arts/richard-rogers-harvard-film-teacher-57.html|title=Richard Rogers, Harvard Film Teacher, 57|date=July 18, 2001|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 3, 2019|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> shortly before his death in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/05/the-windmill-movie|title=The Windmill Movie: Two filmmakers collaborate across the gulf between life and death.| first = Craig | last = Lambert | work=Harvard Magazine|date=May 2009}}</ref>
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