Meryl Meisler
American photographer
Intro | American photographer | |
Places | United States of America | |
is | Photographer | |
Work field | Arts | |
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Birth | 1951 | |
Age | 74 years |
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.
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, Paradise Garage and Hurrah. Between 1981 and 1994 she taught at a public middle school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York and photographed the area's residents.