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Vintage photographs that capture the drama and exuberance of New York in the 1970s

In this series of her earliest work,  Meryl Meisler  captures the drama and exuberance of the 1970s, when pop-psychology encouraged everyone from suburban Long Island housewives to drag queens and disco queens to self-actualise and act out. Via direct submission. All images courtesy and copyright of Meryl Meisler The photographs drift between the kitsch-filled rooms of Meisler’s hometown in Long Island to the gritty clubs and streets of disco-era New York. Meisler takes her stylistic cues from the snapshot aesthetic that was at the centre of New York’s photo world debates since the New Documents show organised by John Szarkowski at MoMA in 1967. She was inspired by Jacques Henri Lartique’s decades-long photo diary, Diane Arbus’ retrospective at MoMA in 1972 and Brassai’s effervescent Paris by Night photographs from the 1930s. These influences helped define her approach, which focused on a personal diary, the snapshot aesthetic and nightlife. Her distinct, borough-spanning visi...
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Nude Performance Artist Milo Moiré Arrested in Paris

Nude Performance Artist Milo Moiré Arrested in Paris Controversial performance artist Milo Moiré took selfies with tourists for her latest work. Photo courtesy of Milo Moiré. Henri Neuendorf July 6, 2015   Share Naked performance artist Milo Moiré is back. This time, the controversial Swiss artist’s performance entailed taking selfies with tourists in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and it landed her in jail. Moiré spent the night in lockup on charges of public indecency. The artist set up her camera on a tripod in front of the tourist attraction and approached strangers, inviting them to pose for photographs with her. She recently  did the same performance in Basel, Switzerland , during the Art Basel fair. The previous year, she  tried to get into the fair naked  as a performance, and she  crashed a museum show  called “the Naked Life” in February. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter. This time, the pe...
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How common were instances of sexual abuse in Nazi concentration camps

How common were instances of sexual abuse in Nazi concentration camps. The accounts that rap£ or prostitution was common, Were the guards were given "free reign" over the prisoners given view of them as subhuman The Nazis sort of developed a network of state-controlled brothels during the war. This included both the civilian and military brothels. The Nazis even set up brothels for the forced labor inmates that helped with the German war effort as incentives for higher production from prisoners in camps. Back then these brothels were suppose to serving several needs. For the soldiers that were far away from home, the Nazis thought that having these brothels would reduce the possibility of rape in occupied lands and reducing the sexual relations with impure local women or forced laborer's, as well. Heck, the Nazis tried to use these brothel women to cure homosexuality as a treatment with male prisoners that were gay. Regular German women were exempt from serving in these b...
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The prisoners in concentration camps have sex with each other

 The prisoners in concentration camps have sex with each other Steady on. Nearly all concentration camps were single-sex, and at those that held both men and women the sexes were usually kept separate, though at Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and possibly also some other sub-camps they worked together. At extermination camps (where the sexes were not separated) most of the prisoners were killed within 24 hours of arrival. Prisoners did not have privacy. Remember that at the time most people had a horror of same-sex relations, especially between men. However, some Kapos and even guards forced prisoners to have sex with them. In Night Elie Wiesel relates how he found his Kapo having sex with a female prisoner, and he (Wiesel) was given 25 lashes for finding them having sex.* In the Women’s Camp at least one guard forced another woman to have sex with her, and at many camps there was a piepel (camp bum boy). *He also describes the hanging of the piepel of a Blockältester ( ‘block senior’). ...
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