Melissa Shook collection
Scope and Contents
The Melissa Shook collection contains one series consisting of interview transcripts, seventy-six black and white work prints titled “Playgroup for children of homeless women in Cambridge,” seven black and white work prints of men and women, and a copy of the 1994 publication Streets Are for Nobody: Homeless Women Speak.
Dates
- 1994
Creator
- Shook, Melissa (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical Note
Melissa Shook was born in New York in 1939. She was a documentary photographer, video artist, writer, and professor of photography. She has taught at the Creative Photography Lab at MIT and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The series “Streets Are for Nobody” consists of portraits of women who had been homeless exhibited with interviews. She died in 2020 in Chelsea, MA.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Documents and work prints related to the photographer, Melissa Shook’s “Streets Are for Nobody” series which chronicles the life of homeless women. Included are unedited transcripts of interviews conducted by Shook, as well as work prints from the series.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: “Streets Are for Nobody” materials, n.d., 1994, 2 boxes
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was a gift from Melissa Shook in 2008.
Processing Information
Finding aid updated by Meghan Jordan in June 2016 and by Tai Huesgen in September 2020.
- Documentary photography Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Melissa Shook collection 1994
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2020
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
