44 Irving Street, 1970–1971 - Susan Meiselas

TBW Books is proud to announce the publication of 44 Irving Street, 1970–1971 by Susan Meiselas, published in collaboration with Higher Pictures on the occasion of Meiselas’s exhibition of the same name at the gallery. In 1970, while a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Susan Meiselas was living in a boarding house at 44 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What began as a class project evolved into a deeply empathetic portrait of community domestic life. Meiselas photographed her neighbors in the building—many of them strangers—inside their rooms, initiating a collaborative exchange by sharing contact sheets and inviting written responses. These reflections appear alongside the photographs, offering insight into how her subjects saw themselves.