Prince Street Girls
Susan Meiselas
Galerie Catherine and André Hug
Softcover
26 pages
160×220 mm
2013
ISBN: Not available
“In 1975, nearly thirty-five years ago, I was riding a bicycle through my neighborhood in Little Italy when suddenly a blast of light flashed into my eyes, blinding me for a moment. Its source was a group of girls fooling around with a mirror trying to reflect the sun on my face. That was the day I met the Prince Street Girls, the name I gave the group that hung out on the nearby corner almost every day. The girls were from small Italian-American families and they were almost all related. I was the stranger who didn’t belong. Little Italy was mostly for Italians then.
The project Prince Street Girls began as a series of incidental encounters. They’d see me coming and call out, “Take a picture! Take a picture!” At the beginning I was making pictures just to share with them. If we met in the market or at the pizza parlor, they would reluctantly introduce me to their parents but I was never invited into any of their homes. I was their secret friend, and my loft became a kind of hideaway when they dared to cross the street, which their parents had forbidden.”
– Susan Meiselas, 2013
Susan Meiselas, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1948, received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA in visual education from Harvard University.
www.susanmeiselas.com
The Catherine and André Hug Gallery was founded in Paris in 2000. Located in the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, Paris’ artistic and historic district, the Gallery is primarily dedicated to contemporary art, representing artists of various expressions; from painting to installation, drawing and sculpture.
