Background

M. Melissa Shook was born on April 18, 1939, in New York, United States.

Education

M. Melissa Shook received a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.

Career

In 1979 M. Melissa Shook became an assistant professor in the Art Department of the University of Massachusetts Harbor Campus in Boston and artist-in-residence for Cornell University's Art Department. From 1974 to 1977 she was a lecturer and assistant professor in the Creative Photo Lab at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1974 M. Melissa Shook lectured at the New School for Social Research in New York City and at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York.

M. Melissa Shook has produced a twelve-year series on her daughter, Krissy, and in the 1980s was photographing charismatic healing services.

Works

More photos

• photography

  • daughter Krissy

  • daughter Krissy

    1984

  • photography

    1973

  • Edith & Roman Vishniac R.I.S.D

    1977

  • Self-Portrait

    1973

Membership

• Society for Photographic Education (SPE)

• Word Guild , Boston

References

• Photographer Melissa Shook Personal website of the photographer Melissa Shook