Soldiers Searching Bus Passengers, Northern Highway, El Salvador
About this artwork
In her photographs of civil war in Nicaragua and El Salvador, Meiselas has shown us the heart-breaking actions and consequences of war. Her related series, 'Border Crossings', exposes the desperate, secret attempts to escape into the United States away from this violence. Meiselas has said: 'For those undocumented workers who have crossed successfully, we Americans rarely ask who they are or why they have left their homelands. We pass their silent faces on the streets, in stores, even within our homes. We see their eyes, but we don't know what their eyes have seen'.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Susan Meiselas (born 1948) American
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title:Soldiers Searching Bus Passengers, Northern Highway, El Salvador
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date created:1980
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:40.60 x 50.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 2001
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accession number:PGP 283.1
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Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas holds an M.A. in visual education from Harvard and her early career involved filmmaking and educational projects with underprivileged children form the Bronx, New York and the rural south of the United States. In 1980 she became a full member of the Magnum co-operative. She has...
