Melissa Springer
Melissa Springer is a photojournalist and artist. Her work has been featured in over 50 magazines, including Aperture, Elle, Forbes, Harpers Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Southern Living, Village Voice and House and Garden, as well as in numerous books. She is currently on the faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Her studio is located at 2311 Morris Avenue in Birmingham.
Springer studied art and photography at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Springer's "Julia Tutwiler Prison Series" was the first show exhibited at the Agnes gallery. Highlights from the series were published in Elle and she was interviewed on CNN about the project.
Her photographs were part of the travelling exhibition The South By Its Photographers, and were published in its accompanying book. She and Jim Neel photographed snake-handling congregations for Dennis Covington's book Salvation on Sand Mountain. Her photographs of breast cancer survivors were the subject on an exhibit at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center with an accompanying book.
Publications
- Neel, Jim and Melissa Springer (1996) Salvation on Sand Mountain: Photographs by Jim Neel and Melissa Springer. Alexandria, Louisiana: Alexandria Museum of Art. ISBN 0944564054
- Springer, Melissa (1996) A Tribe of Warrior Women: Breast Cancer Survivors. Birmingham: Crane Hill Publishers. ISBN 1575870495
- Springer, Melissa (1998) Important Things. Birmingham: Crane Hill Publishers. ISBN 1575870614
External links
- Melissa Springer website
- Across America with Larry Woods (video)