See It Now: Melissa Shook's Daily Self-Portraits, 1972-1973
In 1972, photographer Melissa Shook (1939-2020) began a personal artistic challenge, taking self-portraits every day for a year, in her own words, “to prove that I exist.” Shook undertook this conceptual exercise as she struggled with self-identity and unreliable memories, and the collective portrait that emerges conveys the vibrancy of …
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