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From Miss Rosen’s article for i-D:

In the mix was a young artist named Meryl Meisler, then 25, who moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1975. She and her partner in crime, JudiJupiter, dubbed themselves “Neurotic Erotica” and played their roles to the hilt: Judi, the vivacious libertine and Meryl, the artist at work. Carrying her medium format camera and a couple of rolls of film everywhere she went, Meryl began chronicling the decadent disco scene with equal parts aplomb and abandon. Enthralled by the swirl of people of every race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and background imaginable, Meryl felt at home as a young lesbian embarking on the start of her life and her career.

Hailing from Massapequa, Long Island, Meryl grew up in a predominantly Jewish and Italian community and lived a sheltered life. Moving to New York opened her eyes to the world. “I met people of different ages and all kinds of lives: poets, writers, artists, intellectuals, people from all backgrounds, incomes, and ages just living life,” she says. “I found it thrilling, like this is where I belong. I carried my camera everywhere I went. It was a way of talking to people.”

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