About

"I don't go out and take pictures, I take pictures where I go."
Meryl Meisler, born in 1951, grew up on Long Island, New York. Born into a Central European Jewish family, she began photography in the 1970s, inspired by Diane Arbus and Jacques Henri Lartigue. At the age of 24, she moved to New York. She studied with Lisette Model and worked as a freelance illustrator. In those years, she assiduously frequented Manhattan nightclubs, where she witnessed the disco explosion. During these wild evenings, she danced and photographed the city's nightlife.

In the early 1980s, she …