Melissa Shook's Daily Self Portraits 1972-73 book, published by TBW Books, was shortlisted for the Historical Book Award category in the Rencontre d'Arles Photo Book Awards 2024.
In December 1972, Melissa Shook (1939–2020) began a series of daily self-portraits in her Lower East Side apartment that she would continue until August 1973. Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 is the artist’s complete series of 192 photographs published together for the first time. With her medium format, black and white photographs, Shook captures herself in a variety of poses creating a more complete portrait than could be achieved with any one image.
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