Learn to See Edition:Signed

Learn to See Edition:SignedReissued in 2021, Learn to See: A Sourcebook of Photography Projects by Students and Teachers (Polaroid Foundation, 1974), a publication conceived when Susan Meiselas was a teacher in Bronx public schools in New York. With the participation of other educators, artists and researchers, she created a tool dedicated to experimentation and learning through images. In a series of 101 playful exercises, the book progressively explores the basics of

domesticated and wild

While known primarily for these melancholic black-and-white works

frank moments—stripped bare of societal pressure or judgment and in stark contrast to the busy

only one year after she rose to stardom

a young photographer of 23

In his early thirties at the time

regardless of their nationality and traditions

and his insistence that the government is answerable to all – black and white

cooling off from the heat with an open fire hydrant

his immediate reaction was a sense of loneliness and isolation

plus an illustrator and a writer

where the cycle of life and death is present every day