Ann Zane Shanks
American, 1927-2015
Born 1927, Brooklyn, New York
Lived in Sheffield, Massachusetts
Died 2015
Ann Shanks studied theater for one year each at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and Columbia University before becoming secretary to the director of industrial design and architecture at the Museum of Modern Art. In the late 1940s she joined the Photo League, where studied with Dan Weiner. She also won a scholarship to the celebrated photography class taught by Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research, New York. In 1955 her photographs of the Third Avenue El were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York. Her work also appeared in Esquire and Woman's Day, among other publications. Shanks has produced and/or directed a variety of media works, including film and documentary (Central Park, 1970; A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, 1984); television series (American Life Style, 1971–82); and Broadway shows (Lillian,1986). She has also published books on a wide variety of subjects for a diverse audience, including a book for children, Garbage and Stuff (1973); Busted Lives: Dialogues with Kids in Jail (1973); and Old Is What you Get: Dialogues on Aging by the Old and the Young (1976). In 2003, the New-York Historical Society mounted a major retrospective of her photographic work, Behind the Lens, with an exhibition catalogue, Ann Zane Shanks: Photographs. Her work also appeared in the exhibition "The Women of the Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009).
Lived in Sheffield, Massachusetts
Died 2015
Ann Shanks studied theater for one year each at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and Columbia University before becoming secretary to the director of industrial design and architecture at the Museum of Modern Art. In the late 1940s she joined the Photo League, where studied with Dan Weiner. She also won a scholarship to the celebrated photography class taught by Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research, New York. In 1955 her photographs of the Third Avenue El were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York. Her work also appeared in Esquire and Woman's Day, among other publications. Shanks has produced and/or directed a variety of media works, including film and documentary (Central Park, 1970; A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, 1984); television series (American Life Style, 1971–82); and Broadway shows (Lillian,1986). She has also published books on a wide variety of subjects for a diverse audience, including a book for children, Garbage and Stuff (1973); Busted Lives: Dialogues with Kids in Jail (1973); and Old Is What you Get: Dialogues on Aging by the Old and the Young (1976). In 2003, the New-York Historical Society mounted a major retrospective of her photographic work, Behind the Lens, with an exhibition catalogue, Ann Zane Shanks: Photographs. Her work also appeared in the exhibition "The Women of the Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009).
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