Mother and Attendants Dressing the Bride

1984
Not on view
A professor of photography at Columbia College in Chicago since 1984, Pinney chronicles the rituals and ceremonies of middle- and upper-middle-class America. For this picture and others from the period, she often took professional assignments covering weddings and parties to gain behind-the-scenes access to her subjects, such as this witty yet cutting comment on matrimony as sacrificial rite.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mother and Attendants Dressing the Bride
  • Artist: Melissa Ann Pinney (American, born 1953)
  • Date: 1984
  • Medium: Chromogenic print
  • Dimensions: 50.8 x 61.0 cm (20 x 24 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998
  • Object Number: 1998.522
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Melissa Ann Pinney
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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