Melissa Ann Pinney
1953–
Introduction
Melissa Ann Pinney (born February 12, 1953) is an American photographer best known for her closely observed studies of the social lives and emerging identities of American girls and women. Pinney's photographs have won the photographer numerous fellowships and awards, including Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, and found their way into the collections of the major museums in the US and abroad.
Melissa Ann Pinney's work first garnered attention when it was included in the Museum of Modern Art's major 1991 exhibition, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort. Her evocative and sharply attentive photographs of the stages of life in American women earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, enabling her to develop the work that resulted in her first major monograph, Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls (Center for American Places, 2003). Since that time, Pinney has continued to follow those narratives, and the themes contained within them. This is an extensive body of work, some of which was shown at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and at Alan Klotz Gallery in 2007 and 2009. Girl Ascending, the full span of this second phase in Pinney's project, was published by the Columbia College Press in January 2010.
Wikidata identifier
Q26265885
Information from Wikipedia, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Accessed March 30, 2024.
20 works
-
Kanaha State Beach, Maui
2002, printed 2003 -
Evanston, Illinois
2001, printed 2003 -
Pool, Los Angeles, CA
2000, printed 2003 -
Christmas Tree Lot, Chicago, Illinois
2000, printed 2003 -
Kanaha State Beach, Maui
2000, printed 2003 -
Washington Park Pool, Chicago
2000, printed 2003 -
Emma on Cellar Door, Evanston, Il
2000, printed 2003 -
Tea Party, Glencoe, Illinois
1999, printed 2003 -
Little Witch, Evanston, Illinois
1999, printed 2003 -
Maxine, Evanston, Illinois
1999, printed 2003 -
Evanston, Illinois
1998, printed 2003 -
Evanston, Illinois
1998, printed 2003 -
Kevin & Kate, Evanston, Illinois
1998, printed 2003 -
Disney World, Orlando, Florida
1998, printed 2003 -
Sarasota, Florida
1997, printed 2003 -
Bat Mitzvah Dance, Chicago, IL
1991, printed 2003 -
Flowergirl, Mundelien
1991, printed 2003 -
Beauty Salon Birthday Party, Evanston, Illinois
1991, printed 2003 -
Barbara's Beauty Salon, Chicago, Illinois
1987, printed 2003 -
Mother & Attendants Dressing the Bride, Chicago, Illinois
1985