We Are Not Showgirls: Carinval Strippers (w/ Ariela Badenas) – Episode 69

<p>Full show notes and photos here: <a href='https://allthroughalens.com/2022/09/27/we-are-not-showgirls-carinval-strippers-w-ariela-badenas-episode-69/'>allthroughalens.com</a></p> <p> </p> <p>On this episode, we’re getting literary, sort of. We’ll be talking to Ariela Badenas about her photography and her new book There Is Nothing Remarkable About This Place. We’ll then be hitting the traveling fair circuit to talk about Susan Meiselas and her project from the mid 70s – Carnival Strippers. We’ve also got the answering machine question and a couple of zine reviews!</p> <p>We open with Vania talking about some hard times and some good times too. She also pinpoints the fun part about film photography. Meanwhile, Eric talks about his bad photo weekend full of bad photos. And guess who dropped his camera.</p> <p>Also, according to math, it’s our three year anniversary.</p> <p> </p> Ariela Badenas <p>If you’ve listened to our podcast more than a couple of times, you’ll recognize the name: Ariela Ba-DEN-as, aka Arielaaaaaaa! She’s just published her first book, There is Nothing Remarkable About this Place.</p> <p>We just as much fun as we thought we’d have talking to her.</p> <p>Buy her book! <a href='https://www.arielab.ca/shop'>https://www.arielab.ca/shop</a></p> <p>IG: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/arielaaaaaaaa/'>@arielaaaaaaaa</a></p> <p>Web: <a href='https://www.arielab.ca/'>https://www.arielab.ca/</a></p> <p>Here are a few of the photos that we talked about from her book:</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> Carnival Strippers <p>By the 1960s, every traveling carnival had one or more strip shows going on towards the back of the fair grounds all through the night. They reached their apex in the mid-1970s, just when photographer Susan Meiselas was beginning her career.</p> <p>Susan Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1949. She received her Masters from Harvard studying under documentary photographer Barbara Norfleet. It was her first and only photography course. </p> <p>Susan began this three-year-lon