Melissa C. Wanamaker
115 East 72nd Street
New York, NY 10021
mwanamaker1@mac.com
Website: melissawanamaker.com
Tel. 917-902-0044

EDUCATION

1961-65, BA, Mt. Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA.
(Learned how to weld and make copper sculptures with artist Leonard
de Longa)

1967-72, MA. And Ph.D., Columbia (English literature)

1985-88, Studied with Kathleen Foster, a student of Lisette Model. This included
darkroom instruction, history of photography and portfolio review.

1989 – Maine Photographic School, Rockport, Me.
Master Classes with Mary Ellen Mark. Created a photo essay, which
was later exhibited several times, last at the Midtown Y.

1990 – Maine Photographic School. Master Class with Larry Fink, also a student of Lisette Model. Created a photo essay. Also exhibited.

1992-3, ICP, International Ctr. Photography, NY.
Darkroom with Adam Eidelberg; portraiture with
Harvey Stein; photo collecting with Beth Gates-Warren, Sotheby’s


EXHIBITIONS

1993 – One woman show
“Terezin Concentration Camp”
Jewish Center of the Hamptons
East Hampton, NY

1994 – One woman show
“Terezin Concentration Camp,” Czech Republic
Gallery at Abraham Goodman House/Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY

1995 – One woman show
“Terezin Concentration Camp”
Jewish Community Center
Denver, Colo.

1996 – One woman show
“Melissa Wanamaker / Photographs”
Midtown Y (Michael Spano, Director)
New York, NY

2003 – One woman show
“Children – Light and Shadows”
Gallery at Quogue Public Library
Quogue, Long Island, NY

2014 – Created Audio/Visual presentation of “The Life and
Art of Surrealist Joseph Cornell,” a two hour film. Shown at
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

2021 – Created website for photography and fine art: melissawanamaker.com

COLLECTIONS

United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC. and private collections

PHOTOJOURNALISM

1965 – TIME LIFE BOOKS, Photo and Text researcher of Science library, worked with Carol Kismaric, sister of Susan Kismaric, Curator of Photography, MoMA

1966-84, As freelance Photo Researcher worked for TIME-LIFe photography book series, T-L International, T-L Video. Produced with writer a WW2 documentary, “The Nazi Invasion of Poland, 1939."

1978 – As TIME Magazine Staff Correspondent, NY Bureau, interviewed and filed for such cover stories as Modern Architecture, esp. Philip Johnson.

1993 – PHOTO PRO magazine, Editor Joe Marvullo

“The New York Gallery Scene”
Interviewed gallerists, such as Vincent Cianni and Edwyn Houk,
for critical essay on much photographic work, such as Brassai, Dorothy
Norman and Alfred Steiglitz

1993 – PHOTO PRO magazine
“Alvin Ailey and his Dance Studio”
Interviewed dance photographer Jack Mitchell in his studio and wrote
story on his new book on Ailey

1993 – PHOTO PRO Interviewed Martine Barrat on publication of her book, “Do or Die”

1995 – “America A to Z.” Researched and wrote all of photograph entries, Reader’s Digest Books, NY City

1996 – LIFE magazine, 60th Anniversary issue, Daniel Okrent, Editor in Chief. As freelance Photo Researcher/Reporter interviewed all living LIFE photographers and created research photo files for 25 of the 60 photographs. David Friend and Bobbi Baker Burrows, photography editors