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Disco Nights, Strip Clubs & Punk Bars: Meryl Meisler’s New York in the 1970s

Meryl Meisler revisits the start of her photography career when she moved to New York and reveled in the pleasures of the city’s decadent nightlife scene.
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Stiv Bators’ Punk Snear CBGB, NY, NY April 1977 © Meryl Meisler As a Baby Boomer coming of age in Massapequa, Long Island, in the 1950s and 1960s, Meryl Meisler enjoyed the picture perfect suburban American childhood. Her days were filled w...

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Miss Rosen

Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer focusing on art, photography, and culture. Her work has been published in books and magazines, including Time, Vogue, Aperture, and Vice, among others.

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