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Nudist Camp Crime is a photograph by Retro Images Archive which was uploaded on April 27th, 2014. The photograph may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 – 3 business days.
Meisler takes her stylistic cues from the snapshot aesthetic that was at the centre of New York’s photo world debates since the New Documents show organised by John Szarkowski at MoMA in 1967. She was inspired by Jacques Henri Lartique’s decades-long photo diary, Diane Arbus’ retrospective at MoMA in 1972 and Brassai’s effervescent Paris by Night photographs from the 1930s. These influences helped define her approach, which focused on a personal diary, the snapshot aesthetic and nightlife. Her distinct, borough-spanning vision of the Big Apple in the ’70s aligns her with the masters of Americana.
Many of Meisler’s photos document members of the “The Mystery Club,” a group of 11 couples from nearby neighbourhoods who would take turns planning mystery outings. These took them everywhere from haunted houses, recording studios and hypnotists to the Continental Baths in New York City and a nudist camp in South Jersey. Posing coyly in front of their matching wallpaper and bedspreads and surrounded by ornately arranged tchotchkes, her subjects capture the pride and delight of people for whom the suburbs meant affordable homes and the chance to escape the urban streets that had become increasingly mean.
