Stacey Walking Down Playmate’s Stairs with tips in her Stockings NY, NY, 1978 by Meryl Meisler
We’re celebrating Meryl Meisler and her five-decade career as a photographer, which began in 1973. We see Meryl’s work from her early years in suburban Long Island pugatory to hanging out in the clubs of topless dancers and bottomless drinks in 1970s Manhattan, to days teaching the overlooked in pre-gentrified Bushwick, to the present, where Meryl is focusing once more on night life and new self-portraits.
Her pictures show us life lived at ramming speed. And here we focus on some of her photographs of women in New York City – the women living it large in an era shaped by safe, affordable and effective birth control, the feminist movement – hail to the campaigners and the ones who did – co-operation, free self-expression and equality.
Meryl Meisler Self-Portrait – Playmate-Hostess
My favorite Jewish Mother, Sylvia Frances Schulman Meisler reading on Thanksgiving Evening, 1978
Feminine Floored Hurrah (Potassa de la Fayette), NY, NY, Hurrah, March 1978 #2
Dallas Performs near-Mirrors – Hurrah Wild-Wild West Party
Self-Portrait, My Childhood Bedroom Mirror, North Massapequa, NY, February 1976
Miss Malice, birthday femme, Switch n’ Play, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY, January 2023
Love in Bloom G-d Bless America Henry Street Settlement Good Companions Senior Center 1978
Coli, Playmate Hostess, NY, NY, December 1978
Two Queens, One Blonde, One Brunette, COYOTE Hookers Masquerade Ball, CopaCabana, February 14, 1977
Gold Stars Arch (Dallas) Le Clique, NY, NY, June 1978.
Mom Getting her hair Teased at Besame Beauty Salon North Massapequa, NY, June 1976
Two Women on Floor Next to Judi Jupiter During The Prom Party. Les Mouches, NY, NY
June 1978
JJ Holding Head as Hair Flies While Dancing with Judi Jupiter, Studio 54, NY, NY, July 1977. Studio 54, July 1977
Ripped Stocking and Garter Dance Trio at GG’s Barnum Room, NY, NY, December 1978
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