Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973

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Melissa Shook (April 18, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American photographer, artist and educator. Her photographs are part of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Invitation Only: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol Taback which looks closely at three photographic series from the 1970s, for which Crane, Shook, and Taback each set similar self-imposed and rigid parameters for where they would take pictures. Confining their working environments to a single doorway or room opened up enormous creative possibilities, paradoxically freeing up each photographer to produce highly original and insightful portraits.

Editor: Miyako Yoshinaga
Essay: Sally Stein
Softy cover
Publisher: TBW Books 2023
200 black and white photographs
ISBN: 9781942953616

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