A young boy peers intently at an unseen spectacle, his expression caught between curiosity and wide-eyed fascination at a traveling carnival. Meiselas captures the fleeting, candid moment with the raw intimacy characteristic of her early documentary work, the gelatin silver print lending the image a rich tonal depth. The photograph is part of her seminal *Carnival Strippers* series, in which she spent three summers documenting the lives of women who performed in traveling tent shows along the Eastern Seaboard.