Fire, Ashes, Fear: Bushwick in the 1980s by Meryl Meisler
Dec 16th, 2011 | By Catherine Kirkpatrick
It just didn’t seem right. Why would a teacher leave a full-time post just before Christmas? Everyone knew Bushwick was dangerous. Was the teacher even alive? Had she been…killed? Thus begins Meryl Meisler‘s artist statement, but in 1981 it was a real concern. She’d already had a camera stolen–not on the street, but in a classroom where [...]