Higher Pictures presents Susan Meiselas’ earliest series of photographs, 44 Irving Street 1970 – 1971, following its exhibition at Harvard Art Museums. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
In 1970, while still a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Susan Meiselas was living in a boarding house at 44 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boarding houses, like the one at 44 Irving Street, often began as large, single-family homes in cities or college towns. As average family sizes decreased and the socioeconomic makeup of neighborhoods changed, these homes were then divided up into smaller units while maintaining a shared kitchen, bathrooms, and common areas. As a result, each of the rooms at 44 Irving Street retained some of the home’s original single-family character.
Higher Pictures Gallery 45 Main Street, #723 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Through iconic images from Magnum Photos this exhibition explores the role of women from the post-war period to today, highlighting the strength and complexity of the female path towards emancipation and the social transformations that have marked the condition of women in the last seventy years.
Via Appia Monterosso, 52, 35031 Abano Terme PD, Italy
