Melissa Ann Pinney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melissa Ann Pinney
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1953(1953-02-12)
Age	71
Birthplace	St. Louis
Country	United States
Birth City	Missouri
Horoscope	Aquarius

Melissa Ann Pinney Biography

Melissa Ann Pinney is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on February 12, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Melissa Ann Pinney was born February 12, 1953. She is an American photographer. Her most notable work is her close-observed studies of American girls’ social lives and emerging identities. Pinney’s photos have been awarded numerous fellowships and awards including NEA Fellowships and Guggenheim Fellowships. They are now part of major museums across the US and around the world.

Pinney worked as a stylist and photo-assistant for motion and commercial still photographers throughout the 1980s. Pinney began shooting color in order to accept wedding and party photography commissions. The “Feminine Identity Series” was born from photographs of brides and their mothers, as well as attendants. This series was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1991 exhibit, Pleasures & Terrors of Domestic Comfort.

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.

Pinney made the first picture in the Cellar Door Series in May, 2001. After celebrating her daughter Emma’s sixth birthday with a backyard party, Emma climbed up on the old cellar door. Pinney was inspired by Alfred Stieglitz’s 1921 portrait of Georgia Engelhard to make a picture. Afterward, Pinney decided to continue the project, at first once a year and then once every season or so. Emma is now twenty one years old; the photographs span over a decade from 2001 to 2016 and continuing.

1978 saw Pinney’s Portraits of Evanston Artists exhibit at the Evanston Art Center. This was followed by a series of large black-and-white portraits of friends and family, called “Remembrances”. In 1982, the Chicago Cultural Center opened the exhibition. It then traveled to Springfield, Illinois’ Illinois State Museum in 1983.

Melissa Ann Pinney Net Worth

Melissa Ann Pinney is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melissa Ann Pinney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Melissa Ann Pinney was the fourth child of William Thomas Pinney, and Mary Ann Hilburn Pinney. The Pinneys moved to Scarsdale in New York one year after she was born. Six years later, they moved to Palo Alto in California, and then to Evanston, Illinois, in 1961. Pinney was raised Catholic and attended highschool at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Chicago. After graduating from Manhattanville College, a Sacred Heart college in Purchase, NY in 1976, Pinney earned a BFA degree in Photography at Columbia College Chicago in 1977. Pinney received her MFA degree in Photography at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in 1988.

Pinney’s first work that attracted attention was a series black-and-white costumed portraits of her female friends. These were taken in Chicago. These images were first displayed in Breath of vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers at Fashion Institute of Technology Galleries, New York City, in 1975.

In graduate school, Pinney moved on from the medium-format portraits that had characterized her work, to pictures made in the flux of life on the streets of Chicago. Her first project in this manner were pictures made during the summer of 1983 at the Hamlin Park swimming pool, followed by a series of street carnivals shot mostly at night, images of her parents and siblings in Florida, and the beaches of Sarasota and Miami. By the mid-1980s Pinney had acquired her first Leica Camera.

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Top Facts about Melissa Ann Pinney

1. Melissa Ann Pinney is an American photographer born in 1953.
2. She studied at the University of Illinois and the Art Institute of Chicago.
3. Pinney’s work has been exhibited internationally since the 1980s.
4. Her photographs often focus on women, family, and domestic life.
5. Pinney has published several books, including “Girl Ascending” and “Two.” 6. She has received numerous awards for her photography, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.
6. Pinney’s work is held in collections at major museums worldwide.
7. Her photographs have been featured in publications such as The New York Times Magazine and Time magazine.
8. Pinney currently teaches photography at Columbia College Chicago.
9. She continues to produce new work that explores themes of identity and memory.