‘Susan Meiselas: Meditations’ Review: Turning Subjects Into Collaborators

A retrospective of the photojournalist’s forty-year career shows how she has used her camera to document the lives of ordinary people in ways that seek to involve them in their own representation.

San Francisco

Taking a picture can be a complex moral act for Susan Meiselas. Over more than four decades, the 70-year-old American photojournalist has used her camera to report on the lives of ordinary people in ways that seek to involve them in their own representation, and that heighten awareness of photography as an unpredictable human transaction.

“Susan...