About the Author

Melissa Ann Pinney is a photographer and teaches photography at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been widely exhibited at such renowned institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls, was also published by the Center for American Places.

Reviews

"Girl Ascending is Melissa Ann Pinney at her luminous best. Her work is so vibrant, so vital, that every photograph in this book is its own living, breathing world." (Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto)"