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Photographer rediscovers there’s no place like home
BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND December 21, 2015
It’s easy to crack a broad smile as you flip through the pages of photographer Meryl Meisler’s new book, “Purgatory & Paradise: SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City.” It’s filled with pictures — all black and white — that Meisler took of her family, neighbors and friends in Long Island, New York four decades ago. They are juxtaposed with others she shot while covering the flashy disco scene, as well as the grittier aspects of what is generally considered to be anything but New York City’s finest decade...You get the distinct feeling that whatever else might have been going on in the world beyond suburbia, the people in Meisler’s life liked to have fun -
