susan meiselas currently has work up at the international center for photography. her work has been documentary in nature for the past few decades covering social upheaval in central america. her most notable work was photographing the violence in nicaragua in the early eighties which was later turned into a photo book. the title of this show is "in history" and is an overview of meiselas's career in documentary photography.i chose this image because it appears as this moment on the verge of exploding both literally and metaphorically. he reminds me of che guevera and that with the molotov cocktail seem to reinforce this notion of revolution. a woman is crying behind a small pile of sandbags is a desolate landscape. it's interesting to see work that is so infused with passion and emotion of all varieties .
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