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Meryl Meisler
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. Life and work 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 (nightclub), Hurrah. Between 1981 and 1994 she taught at a public middle school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York and photographed the area's residents. Publications *''A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick''. Brooklyn, NY: Bizarre, 2014. . 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. . With an introduction by Catherine Kirkpatrick. Essays by Ernest Drucker, Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio 54
Studio 54 is a Broadway theater and a former disco nightclub at 254 West 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Operated by the Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54 has 1,006 seats on two levels. The theater was designed by Eugene De Rosa for producer Fortune Gallo and opened in 1927 as the Gallo Opera House. The current Broadway theater is named after a nightclub on the same site, founded by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, which operated within the theater's space in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Plans for the Gallo Opera House announced in 1926, and it opened on November 8, 1927, as a legitimate theater and opera house for the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. The theater went bankrupt within two years and was renamed the New Yorker Theatre in 1930. The Casino de Paree nightclub operated at the theater from December 1933 to April 1935, and the theater briefly hosted the Palladium Music Hall in early 1936. The Federal Music Project took over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
