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Susan Meiselas

Where Can I Find a BJ or a HJ

2011

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Susan Meiselas

Where Can I Find a BJ or a HJ

2011

Physical Qualities Booklet (zine) with text and photographs, Book: 280 x 216 x 2 mm. (11 x 8 1/2 x 1/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the box set "Postcards from America"
Credit Line Gift of a MAD Gathering in Honor of Ann Shafer
Object Number 2012.203.10
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2012; Monroe Denton, Brooklyn, NY, by purchase (as gift to The Baltimore Museum of Art)

Artist

Susan Meiselas

American, born 1948

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Honoré Daumier, Bauger, and others
Well, citizen, where can I take you?
1841
Honoré Daumier
Where can one be happier...
1841
Susan Meiselas
Youths Practice Throwing Contact Bombs in Forest Surrounding Monimbo
1978, printed 1991
Honoré Daumier
Where reading the Constitutionnel can lead you!
1845
Susan Meiselas
Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya
1978 negative (printed 1991)
Honoré Daumier
The disadvantage of buying a newspaper that is publishing the news twelve hours before the others. - How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper.
1848
Honoré Daumier
Trouvé-Chauvel. Strict guardian of the Republic's finances, citizen Trouvé-Chauvel never separates himself from the treasure, even when he goes to the National Assembly. It is true that it is very easy for him to carry it over his shoulder. This minister has an obsession, which is making him quite unhappy; he wants to balance revenue with expenditure, but he cannot find the means to this end.... also, he doesn't like people saying to him: - have you found it, Chauvel?....
1848
Honoré Daumier
Listen carefully! If you are being asked for arabic Racahout to fatten all kinds of sultanas (women in a harem), for arabian Nafé for suckling children of all ages, for oriental Kaiffa to cure gastritis or corns, for Theobrome against vomiting, for Amandine, Indostane, Osman-Iglou, Paraguay-Roux, Criosote, Chocolat of Salep, Hypocras, white mustard to treat black moods, tooth ache and overweight, or Giant Cabbage seed, you will find it all in this bag, make no mistake!! You can sell it as a powder, ointment, solution or pellets, as you see fit. - Damnit! What kind of pellets are these anyway? - They are fool's pellets of the highest quality. - Splendid, splendid!
1837
Honoré Daumier
Robert Macaire before his judges. Very well! Yes, gentlemen, I was rather unfortunate at the Assize Court... but misfortune is always respectable!... moreover, it’s true what has been said, I've a habit of subtracting money, it's easier to excuse me than someone else because it's harder for me to resist my weakness... as for the rest, I am accused of selling lead for gold? Twenty witnesses swear to it. Very well! I deny it forty times and since two denials are worth an avowal it's clear that you cannot find me guilty. (after this brilliant improvisation Robert Macaire is condemned with a maximum sentence).
1837
Honoré Daumier
A Proverb from the period. / What is Diogenes doing with a lantern? / the elegant dandies ask with concern. / I am looking for a man with my weak eyes, / can't find him. / They thought this answer was quite a shame. / (Poetical essay by M. de Rambuteau).
1842