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Diana Mara Henry (born June 20, 1948, in
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, Ohio) is an American freelance photographer and photojournalist.


Biography


Early life and education

After attending Miss Doherty's College Preparatory School for Girls in Cincinnati, Henry entered the
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where she pursued the ''Classique'' course of studies including six years of Latin and four years of Greek. During the summer of 1963 she stayed for several weeks with the family of
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at their Chateau d'Echandens. Admitted a year early to Radcliffe College, she received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize (1967) for her sophomore essay, "The Concept of Time and History", published that same year in the Foundation for the study of Cycles ''Cycles'' Magazine, Vol XVII, pages 67,68,69. In the summer of 1968, she worked at publicity assistant on location for the
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production of the film '' If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium''. She received her A.B. in Government from Harvard University in 1969. Before turning to photography full-time in 1971, she worked as a researcher for the
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documentary, From Here to the Seventies, in 1969, and as a general assignment reporter, news and features, for the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse daily, in 1970.


Introduction to photography

Henry followed her father Carl Henry's path to Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1934. He gave her her first camera, an
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Pioneer, when she was three years old and had himself been a filmmaker of his family's European travels in 1927 and 1929. Together they attended
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showings at the Cincinnati Museums and viewed ''
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'' multiple times. Henry's mother Edith E. Henry, a handbag and shoe designer, led them into a life a taste and travel. Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe College, as photo editor of the ''
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'' from 1967 to 1969. Her photography was also published during that time in ''
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'', the
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Overkill Number Brian Kahin's student film ''Barbara Baby'' (starring Barbara Lanckton Connors), ''
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'', ''Harvard Today'', and ''Time'' magazine. Her first paid assignments were for Dana Hall School and were published in the ''Dana Hall Bulletin'' Vols. 30 and 31. She illustrated the "Clean for Gene" ( McCarthy) campaign pro bono. She also wrote feature and news articles for the ''Crimson'' about
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and Frank Bardacke and the Boston Black Panther Party and "Probing
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's Novel Psyche"


Legacy

Diana Mara Henry first set foot at the Alice Austen House in 1970, when she was writing a feature article for the '' Staten Island Advance'', the NYC borough's ''Newhouse'' daily newspaper for which she was working as a General Assignment reporter. The house was in disrepair and deteriorated further over the years, as DMH researched the work of the owner (1866–1952) for whom it is named, pioneering photographer E. Alice Austen. Diana Mara Henry, who had left the ''Advance'' to take up a career in photography, wanted to produce a book of famous women photographers to inspire and encourage young women to adopt the profession by offering them role models of other daring and accomplished women in the field. Upon discovering that Ann Novotny was preparing a book to be entitled ''Alice's World'', Henry contacted her and joined The Friends of Alice Austen. The group undertook to place a marker in a ceremony at Alice Austen's gravesite and, after Ann Novotny's demise, to have a Staten Island ferry named in her honor. Henry's documentation of the condition of the house and the progress of the restoration were included in the Historic Structures Report that preceded and accompanied the saving of the house. The Alice Austen House, also named Clear Comfort, became a NYC Landmark when, as Vice-President of the Friends of the Alice Austen House, under the leadership of Margaret Riggs Buckwalter, Diana Mara Henry lobbied successfully for the city to grant $1,025,000 to restore the house and open it as a museum. Now a National Historic Landmark, the house was inducted in 2002 into the National Trust for Historic Preservation's highly selective group of Historic Artists' Homes and Studios. Besides her photography of the
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, including paid assignments for the National Commission for the Observance of
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, Henry chose to photograph many events on her own initiative such as the Women's Pentagon Action in 1980 and the demonstration at ''
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'' for the use of the term Ms in 1974, demonstration against decades-long sex experiments on cats at the Museum of Natural History, the 1977 strike at radio station
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against Pacifica, and other often obscure events and personalities that she considered historic and that would be unknown to this day without her visual testimony. For the decade 1971–1981, she continued the reportage she had begun in 1970 with her feature articles about Ed Murphy, an early
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leader, for the Staten Island ''Advance'' and photographed the Memorial Day demonstration at
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and at Lexington and
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in the days preceding. She continued on to photographing the hunger strike at the VA Hospital in Westwood. Ron Kovic was moved to write to her on July 25, 2010: "Your photos are beautiful and represent such a powerful and passionate time in American history. I believe these photos will last and many years from now they will be looked at and studied just as Mathew Brady's classic and haunting
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photos are today." For each of the events she photographed, she collected and preserved massive amounts of documentation in the form of leaflets,
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, guest lists, personal monograph statements, and continued the conversations, documentation and publication of the ephemera through her website. This historic collection, along with the photographs, has found a home at the Du Bois Library of U Mass Amherst.


Assignments, teaching, writing

In 1971, Henry began to learn the technical side of photography by working as an assistant at Steve Eisenberg's studio at 123 West 28th Street, and by starting to photograph one of her most enduring subjects: the
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, including a demonstration at the Internal Revenue Service "Don't Pay War Taxes." One of Henry's first and most successful assignments was to photograph
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on the Brooklyn Bridge for her primary campaign in 1972. Besides being used in the campaign literature, her photographs were published in '' Juris Doctor'' magazine and in the
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's autobiography, ''Who Said it Would be Easy?'' The Congresswoman credits Henry's photograph for helping her win her seat in
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. That was the year Henry also began to photograph
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, her most enduring friend and significant client. Henry's photographs were used in all the Congresswoman's subsequent campaigns for Senate and Mayor. Henry's adventures with the George McGovern campaign, starting with getting on the press bus in New Hampshire and going through the convention in Miami Beach, at which she photographed a young
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, are detailed in her book, ''Women on the Move.'' In her introduction to Henry's book, Professor Nancy C. Unger, author of ''Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History'' (Oxford University Press) writes: "In ''Women on the Move'', Diana Mara Henry's striking photographs bring to life the excitement, the tension, the joy, and the drama of this inspiring period in which anything seemed possible ... Through Henry's eyes, we see these women as heroic, but also deeply human. Her image of
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's careworn face in a pensive moment at the 1972 Democratic Convention reveals a profound beauty." Henry's photographs for ''Reliable Source'' in Miami illustrated articles including "The issue is more than women" by
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on October 7, 1972. Henry also became the staff photographer for the short-lived newspaper ''Brooklyn Today.'' In 1973 she photographed James Brown in performance at Riker's Island at the behest of William Van den Heuvel. She began her annual report work with Camflo Mines that extended for the years 1974, 1975 and 1976, along with the sister company La Luz Mines in 1975 and 1976. In 1973 Henry also photographed
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at the Plaza for ''
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', later republished in the premier issue of a reborn ''Reliable Source'' and the Second A.J. Liebling (journalism) Counter Convention. Further assignments under Events, Subjects. In 1973–1974, Henry returned to her alma mater to teach English at the Lycee Francais de New York, where Pierrette Fleutiaux asked her to teach photography to the teachers, her first photography teaching. In 1974, Henry volunteered at the
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before it opened, and was then hired by Via Wynroth to attend to the Education program. Cornell Capa, founder of the ICP, then asked her to create and run the Community Workshop Program, in which she also taught black and white photography until she left the ICP in 1979. She also headed up the Photography Department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, 1976–1982. Having taken a course and received a "certificate of honor in recognition of outstanding achievement in color photography-prize winning prints" in Ektacolor printing at Germain School of Photography in 1975 taught by Hollingsworth, she developed a course in Cibachrome printing that she taught at the ICP. Invited to speak as keynote, presenter or panelist on the topic of
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and her photography, topics and occasions have included the Society for Photographic Education Northeastern region conference, slide show, 1982; the American Society of Picture Professionals, slide show, 1983; The Radcliffe Club of NY at the Harvard Club, a presentation on the work of
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, 1985; "Photography as a Political Art" with panelists Alex McLean and Anne Whiston Spirn, 40th reunion of the class of 1969, Harvard,2004; "Making Women's History Visible" panel presentation "Preserving the Passion of the Past" at Smith College, 2003 Henry wrote about photography for the American Society of Picture Professionals in 1981: "Fifty Great Women Photographers; An Annotated Checklist" Since 1985, she has been writing, translating from the French, publishing and speaking about the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and its
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political prisoners, including the Jewish spy Andre Scheinmann. Conferences at which she has been invited to present include the Association for Jewish Studies /AJS 41st Annual Conference, Los Angeles, December 2009, and the 40th Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches at
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, 3/6-8/2010. Henry's paper entitled "Call Me Andre: Memoirs of a Jewish Spy in the Resistance" was published in the '' Journal of Ecumenical Studies''.


Exhibitions and galleries

Recent exhibitions include: the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar,
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; National Museum of American Jewish History,
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; and the Jewish Women's Archives's ''Women of Valor'' and ''Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution''. 1973: Group exhibit at Hanratty's, 5/5-6/1, curated by Lee Romero, with Rachel Cowan et al. 1975: "Breadth of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers" juried by Liliane de Cock,
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, Marge Neikrug,
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"The Bus Show" with Bill Cunningham, Lois Connor, Scott Hyde, Lilo Raymond,
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, W. Eugene Smith, Jim Alinder, et al. 1976: "Images of Women", Portland, ME International Women's Arts Festival: "Woman Photographs Man: A Slide Presentation",
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1978: "City Games", Midtown Y Gallery, 6/22-9/17/78 with Larry Fink, Nancy Rudolf, Arthur Tress, et al. NY Photographers' Forum exhibit, Milwaukee Center for Photography, 2/26-3/22/1978 1979: "East Side-West Side: New York Photography",
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, Olin Hall Gallery 11/4-12/2/79 1980: Women, Image, Nature",
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,
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, all galleries, curated by Martha Madigan, with Joan Lyons, Barbara Morgan, Bea Nettles, Barbara Crane,
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et al., 12/1-12/19/1980 1981: "The Finished Print", curated by Larry Fink and Martha Madigan 1982: "Focus on Women", The First Women's Bank, with James Van der Zee,
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, Tana Hoban, et al.,7/5-9/10/1982 1983: "Photographs from France", solo exhibit,
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, 12/1-31/1983 "One Room Schools and Schoolteachers", Granite Hills Photography Gallery, Hardwick, VT, 6/29-7/11/1983 "Photographs: Selected Work of the Last Fifteen Years", solo exhibit, Ballard Mill Center for the Arts, Malone, NY 11/4-12/16/1983 1984: "One Room Schools and Schoolteachers of Vermont" solo exhibit, curated by Rod Faulds, text by Professor Margaret Nelson, at the
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Museum 4/27-6/24/1984 "First National Photography Resume Exhibition", Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Brian Gormley, Kim Keever, Noel Mapstead and Diana Mara Henry, Peggy Doyle's 8/6-9/10/1984 1985: National Women's Hall of Fame, solo exhibit, official photographs of the First
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, March 1983 1986: Catskill Center for Photography 8th and 9th (1987) Annual Benefit Auction of Contemporary and Vintage Photographs and Works on Paper 1987: "One-Room Schools of Ulster County" solo exhibit of the documentary project funded by an Individual Artist's Grant from the NY State Council on the Arts, shown at the
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, Inskirts Gallery, Rosendale, NY 3/21-4/16 1987; the Erpf Catskill Cultural Center 5/2-5/31/1987 and the Catskill Center for Photography,
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1988: "Libel", an exhibit of Photographs and Words, solo exhibit, Pacific Grove Arts Center, 10/21-11/26/1988 1989: Slide show at intermission of the first Broadway run of ''
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'', with Bettye Lane and
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Member Exhibit, Pacific Grove Art Center, 5/19-6/24/1989 Monterey County Women's Exhibition, sponsored by the Monterey County Cultural Council 1990: "Photowork '90", curated by Barbara Millstein, 2/16-3/16/90 "The Divine Feminine" 1991 "Vanishing Jews of
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and the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp", solo exhibit with text of ''L'Enfer d'Alsace'' by Eugene Marlot voiced by 4 dozen residents of Carmel, CA, at the Carl Cherry Center, March 1991. "Dreaming Art", Carl Cherry Foundation, 4/6-28/91 (also 1993) 1993: "The Creative Feminine", Santa Cruz Art League, 3/19-4/24/1993 Artists' Studio Tour of Henry studio at the Carl Cherry Foundation (also 1994 and 1995) "The Subject is Women" 1994: "The Way We Were", solo exhibit of photographs taken for the
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, 1967–1969, at the Science Center, Harvard, June 1994 "Women to Watch For" Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA August 1994; "20/20Insight: Forty Contemporary Women Artists 2/2-3/26/1995; "Women to Watch For", July, 1995; "Bread and Roses" exhibit, 1996 1995: "Redefining Legacies", National Juried Exhibition 1/18-2/11/1995 Membership Exhibition Women's Caucus for Art National Conference, San Antonio, 1/24-27/95 "Reflections of Our Jewish Identity" – Jewish Women Artists Network Exhibition curated by Marcia Goren Weser, UT Health Science Center Auditorium Foyer Gallery 1/17-27/95; "Our Secret Selves" Jewish Women Artists Network xerox project "Mentors and Role Models" presented by Diana Mara Henry /
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and Margaretta Mitchell / Nell Dorr, part of the Fireside Lecture series of the
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Women's Caucus for Art, June 22, 1995 Women and Animals", Society for Photographic Education / SPE conference 2013: "Photographer DMH" an online exhibit at
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's Dubois Library by Chuck Abel


Publications

Her photographs have appeared in many magazines and books such as ''The Perfect Portfolio'' by Henrietta Brackman, ''The Photograph Collectors' Guide'' by Lee Witkin and Barbara London; ''The Best of Photojournalism 4'': Newsweek's Pictures of the Year 1977; ''The Best of Popular Photography''; and as a slide show during the intermission of the first run of the 1989 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, ''
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''. Her photography is also featured on the covers of the books: "The American Women's Movement 1945-200", by Nancy McLean; ''Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States'' by Stephanie Gilmore; "On the Move: American Women in the 1970s" by Winifred D.Wandersee; and in the books: ''Red Feminism'' by Kate Weigand; ''Dear Sisters; Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement'', edited by Rosalynn Baxandall Linda Gordon; ''Malcolm Forbes: Around the World on Hot Air and Two Wheels'', ''Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America'' by Edward K. Kaplan; ''Women in America: Half of History'', by Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault; ''Through Women's Eyes, An American History with Documents'' by Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil''The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party'', by Bruce Miroff; ''Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique'' by Daniel Horowitz; ''The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies in Words and Pictures''; ''A Pictorial History of Women in America'' by Ruth Warren; ''The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America'' by Ruth Rosen ''Coretta Scott King: Keeper of the Dream'' by Sandra Henry and Emily Taitz; ''The Harvard Crimson Anthology: 100 years at Harvard'' edited by Greg Lawless; ''Stayin'Alive: The 1970s'' and ''The Last Days of the Working Class''.(selected list.) 1973: Cover photo: ''La Forteresse'', by Pierrette Fleutiaux, Juillard 1977: ''High Lady: For Women Who Dare'': feature about "Tania Temerson, a 28-year-old American whose career as a jockey has taken her to ...France." "18 Women, 417 Men", with Henry's photo of Elizabeth Holtzman, one of 18 women in Congress; flyer reprinted as a promotional piece from November issue of ''Good Housekeeping'' 1978: ''Viva'' Magazine, "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" interview with Henry et al. by Eddie Adams 1979: ''Women in American Life'' Video Series by the National Women's History Project, Program 5: "1955–1977: New Attitudes Force Dramatic Change" and subsequent NWHP publications: 1997 Gazette, "Living the Legacy", full cover photo and double-page centerfold; "150 Years for Equality, 1998; "Our History is Our Strength: A women's Perspective", gazette and poster, 2011


Collections

Diana Mara Henry's photographs were the first contemporary collection of photographs to be housed at the
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, in 1976. Her photographs of the First
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were exhibited there in 1998. The "Diana Mara Henry: Twentieth Century Photographer" collection is now housed at the Du Bois Library, U Mass Amherst. That collection includes more than 50,000 negatives, 10,000 color slides, 5,000 prints, and documentation for the history of the last four decades of the 20th century as seen in her photographs. The Du Bois has created an online exhibit as well as an introduction to the collection and some 1,000 images already online.


Notable portrait subjects

1967–1969: Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...
, Nathan Pusey, Erik Erikson, Stanley Hoffman, Martin Peretz, Bill Baird, Julian Wasser,
Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of ...
, Mary Ingram Bunting,
Elma Lewis Elma Ina Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an American arts educator and the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She was one of the first recipients of a MacArt ...
, Peggy Cass,
Elsa Martinelli Elsa Martinelli (born Elisa Tia; 30 January 1935 – 8 July 2017) was an Italian actress and fashion model. Life and career Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family. In 1953, she was discovered by Roberto Capu ...
, Donovan, Suzanne Pleshette,
Mildred Natwick Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American actress. She won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Early life Natwick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Mildre ...
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Ian McShane Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is an English actor, producer and director. He is known for his television performances, particularly as the title role in the BBC series ''Lovejoy'' (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in '' Deadwood'' (20 ...
, Rowland Scherman 1972: George McGovern,
Eleanor McGovern Eleanor Fay McGovern ( ''née'' Stegeberg; November 25, 1921 – January 25, 2007) was the wife of George McGovern, who served as a U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1963 to 1981, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972. Early l ...
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Bella Abzug Bella Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steine ...
(through 1980),
Elizabeth Holtzman Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941) is an American attorney and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from New York's 16th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party from 1973 to 1981. She the ...
(through 1980),
Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Mi ...
, Edmund Muskie,
Thomas Eagleton Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American lawyer serving as a United States senator from Missouri, from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. H ...
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Sargent Shriver Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American diplomat, politician, and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family. Shriver was the driving force behind the creatio ...
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Eunice Shriver Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family. She was the founder of the Special Olympics, a sports organization for persons with physical and intellectual disa ...
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Shirley Chisolm Shirley Anita Chisholm ( ; ; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional distr ...
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Charles Rangel Charles Bernard Rangel (, ; born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York from 1971 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of the Ho ...
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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Yvonne Pearl Burke (née Watson, later Brathwaite; born October 5, 1932) is an American politician and lawyer from California. She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress. She served in the U.S. Congress from ...
, Jesse Jackson,
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(through 1980), Lawrence O'Brien, Norman Mailer,
Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
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Edward Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...
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Richard Tuck Richard Francis Tuck (born 1 January 1949) is a British academic, political theorist and historian of political thought. He taught at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1995. He then joined the faculty of Harvard University, where he teaches ...
, Richard Wade, Allard Lowenstein (through 1980),
Herman Badillo Herman Badillo (pronounced ''bah-DEE-yoh''; August 21, 1929 – December 3, 2014) was an American politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Pu ...
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John Lindsay John Vliet Lindsay (; November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, and candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular ...
, Abraham Beame,
Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows '' It Takes a Thief'' (1968–1970), ''Switch'' (1975–1978), and '' Hart to Hart'' (1979 ...
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David Dinkins David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. He was the first African American to hold the office. Before enteri ...
, Robert Drinan,
Arnold Weiss Arnold Hans Weiss (July 25, 1924 – December 7, 2010) was a German-born refugee from Nazi Germany who emigrated to the United States where he became an intelligence officer working for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and pla ...
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Jean O'Leary Jean O'Leary (March 4, 1948 – June 4, 2005) was an American lesbian and gay rights activist. She was the founder of Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women's movement, and an early member and co-dir ...
, Douglas Ireland,
Abraham Joshua Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish T ...
, Henry Jackson, 1973:
William Fulbright James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. , Fulbright is the longest serving chair ...
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Lowell Weicker Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (; born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He was ...
, William Van Den Heuvel, James Brown, Paul O'Dwyer,
David Halberstam David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 April 23, 2007) was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, Korean War, and late ...
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Art Buchwald Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his column in ''The Washington Post''. At the height of his popularity, it was published nationwide as a syndicated column in more than 500 newspaper ...
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Carl Bernstein Carl Milton Bernstein ( ; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for ''The Washington Post'' in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original n ...
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Brit Hume Alexander Britton Hume (born June 22, 1943), known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. Hume had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to ''World News Tonight with Peter Jennings'', ''N ...
, Anne Klein,
Bob Mackie Robert Gordon "Bob" Mackie (born March 24, 1939) is an American fashion designer and costumier, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Diahann Carroll, Carol Channing, Cher, Doris Day, Marle ...
, Eleanor Lambert Berkson, Clovis Ruffin, Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein,
Ogden Reid Ogden Rogers Reid (June 24, 1925 – March 2, 2019) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and a six-term United States Representative from Westchester County, New York. Early life Reid was born in New Y ...
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Mario Cuomo Mario Matthew Cuomo (, ; June 15, 1932 – January 1, 2015) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. A member of the Democratic Party, Cuomo previously served as ...
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Mario Biaggi Mario Biaggi (October 26, 1917 – June 24, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, and police officer. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1969 to 1988. Prior to his political career, Biagg ...
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Bill Cosby William Henry Cosby Jr. ( ; born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and media personality. He made significant contributions to American and African-American culture, and is well known in the United States for his eccentric ...
, Alan King,
Rosie Casals Rosemary "Rosie" Casals (born September 16, 1948) is an American former professional tennis player. Casals earned her reputation as a rebel in the tennis world when she began competing in the early 1960s. During a tennis career that spanned mor ...
, Billie Jean King,
Bud Collins Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins Jr. (June 17, 1929 – March 4, 2016) was an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary. Collins was married to photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen. Education Collins was b ...
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Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book ''The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(and decade following), Donna Shalala 1974:
John Paul Getty III John Paul Getty III (; born Eugene Paul Getty II; November 4, 1956February 5, 2011) was the grandson of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who was once the richest man in the world. While living in Rome in 1973, he was kidnapped by the 'Ndrangh ...
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Egon von Fürstenberg Egon is a variant of the male given name Eugene. It is most commonly found in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark, and parts of the Netherlands and Belgium. The name can also be derived from the G ...
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Lowell Nesbitt Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 - July 8, 1993) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. He served as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 9, and Apollo 13 space missions; in 1976 the United States Navy commissio ...
, Andrew Crispo, Jeannette Watson (and decade following), Fred Kittler, Jeanne Suydam, Katherine Johnson, Jackie Bograd, Olive Watson,
Frank Oz Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is an American actor, puppeteer, and filmmaker. He began his career as a puppeteer, performing the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in ''The Muppet Show ...
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Cookie Monster Cookie Monster is a blue Muppet character on the long-running PBS/ HBO children's television show ''Sesame Street.'' In a song in 2004, and later in an interview in 2017, Cookie Monster revealed his real name as "Sid". He is best known for hi ...
, Victor Gottbaum, Ann Beatts 1975: Howard Samuels, Cliff Gorman, Farkas family, Isaac Asimov, Berry Berenson Perkins, Anthony Perkins, Mrs. Osgood Perkins, Peter Tufo, Lee Radziwill,
Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
, Ultraviolet, Marion Javits, Thomas Watson Jr., George Plimpton, Arnold Scaasi, Mary Lasker, Sylvia Crane, Robert Polo, Dominick Dunne, Charles James, Karl Lagerfeld, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol (and decade following), Rudi Gernreich, Deborah Turbeville, Adolfo, Joanne and Alfred Stern, Nicky and Kenneth J. Lane, Eugene McCarthy, John and Edmee Slocum, Jay Gunther, Lucinda Kew, Charles Coles, Marienne and Bill Free, Tony Olivieri, Rick Bienecke, Candy Klugman, Wendy and Jeffry Gates, Grete Schuller, 1976:
Diana Vreeland Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was a French-American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine ''Harper's Bazaar'' and as editor-in-chief at ''Vogue'', later becoming a special consultant to the ...
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Marisa Berenson Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson (born February 15, 1947) is an American actress and model. She appeared on the front covers of ''Vogue'' and ''Time'', and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ...
, Bill Blass, Pauline Trigere, Sister Joan Kirby, Lillian Carter,
Billy Carter William Alton Carter (March 29, 1937 – September 25, 1988) was an American farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician. The younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter; he promoted Billy Beer and Peanut Lolita; and he was a candidate for ...
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Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...
, Hugh Carter, Las Barrera, Leroy Jolly, Ramsey Clark, Walter Mondale, Howard Metzenbaum, Lubbavitcher Rebbe
Menachem Mendel Schneerson Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Modern Hebrew: מנחם מענדל שניאורסון; old-fashioned spelling: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to man ...
, Ralph Demers, Abraham Zalmanson, Joe Grandmaison, John Neuhaus, Peggy Kerry, Ed Koch, Candice Bergen, Liz Carpenter, Barbara Mikulski, Karen DeCrow,
Dyan Cannon Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Holly ...
, Jeanne Moreau, Storm de Hirsch, Ruth Ford, Dotson Raider, Tammy Grimes, Andrea Markovicci, Sylvia Miles, Diana Maxwell-Smith, Fred McDarrah, Kate Millett, Margarethe Von Trotta, Claudia Weil, Telly Savalas, Joey Adams, Harry Platt, Bartle Bull, Justine Cushing Freddy Eberstadt, Kathy Johnson, George Beane, Anthony Haden-Guest, Steve Mazoh, Lucinda Watson, Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Robert Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Robert De Machy, Marjorie Neikrug, Susan Meiselas; John Szarkowski, Ralph Baum, Lydia Fischer Frank, David Plowden, Patricia Carbine, Sir Georg Solti, Mirella Freni, Rolf Lieberman, Marion Javits, Kurt Moll 1977: Jeannette McElvenny, Steven M.L. Aronson, George H. Beane, Dayton Carr, Mark R. Chartrand III, Christopher Forbes, Joseph Hammer, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, William M. Hitchcock, Thomas Lee Jones, Lorna Livingston, William C. Murray, Henry Eliot Plimack, Freddy Plimpton, Jocelyn Kress Turner, Susan Watson, Olive F. Watson,
Patti Smith Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album ''Horses''. Called the "punk poet ...
, Jean S. Cartier, Eliot Erwitt, Harvey Fondiller,
Robert Forbes Robert Forbes may refer to: *Robert Forbes (American football) (1886–1947), American football player and coach *Robert Forbes (bishop) (1708–1775), Scottish Episcopal bishop of Ross and Caithness *Robert Bennet Forbes Captain Robert Bennet F ...
, Will Fallar,
Peter Galassi Peter Johnston Galassi (born April 18, 1951) is an American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography. His principal fields are photography and nineteenth-century French art. Education Galassi graduated from Phillip ...
, Burt Glynn, Eliane Laffont, John Morris, Gene Thornton, Richard Golden, Jaydee Putterman, Enid Dinny Winslow, Pierre de Fenoyl,
Barbara Jordan Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-A ...
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Rosalynn Carter Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( ; née Smith; born August 18, 1927) is an American writer and activist who served as First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For decades, she has been a leading advocate ...
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Betty Ford Elizabeth Anne Ford (; formerly Warren; April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011) was the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady, she was active in social policy and set a precedent as a p ...
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Patsy Mink Patsy Matsu Mink (née Takemoto; December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mink was a third-generation Japanese American, having been born and raised on the island of Maui. ...
, Linda Robb,
Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard C ...
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Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King ( Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was married to Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death. As an advocate for African-American equality, she ...
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Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016) was an American attorney, conservative activist, author, and anti-feminist spokesperson for the national conservative movement. She held paleocons ...
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Jean Stapleton Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013) was an American character actress of stage, television and film. Stapleton was best known for playing Edith Bunker, the perpetually optimistic and devoted wife of Arc ...
, Mary Burke Nicholas,
John Mack Carter John Mack Carter (February 28, 1928-September 26, 2014) was an American magazine editor, best known for his editorship of multiple women's magazines. Mack served as editor of each of the “Big Three” women's magazines: ''McCall's'' from 196 ...
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Hugh Carey Hugh Leo Carey (April 11, 1919 – August 7, 2011) was an American politician and attorney. He was a seven-term U.S. representative from 1961 to 1974 and the 51st governor of New York from 1975 to 1982. He was a member of the Democratic Part ...
, C. Delores Tucker,
Jill Ruckelshaus Jill Elizabeth Ruckelshaus (née Strickland; born 1937) is a former special White House assistant and head of the White House Office of Women's Programs and a feminist activist. She also served as a commissioner for the United States Commission o ...
, Caroline Bird, Mildred Jeffrey, Clara Beyer, Pulu Peneueta, Kathryn Clarenbach, Joan Gubbins, Mary Crisp, Maya Angelou,
Elizabeth Athanasakos Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...
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Lucy Komisar Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist and drama critic. Komisar was editor of the ''Mississippi Free Press'' in Jackson, Mississippi from 1962 to 1963. The weekly covered the civil rights movement and related political and ...
, Rita Brogan, Helvi Sipila,
Margaret Heckler Margaret Mary Heckler (née O'Shaughnessy; June 21, 1931 – August 6, 2018) was an American politician and diplomat who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until 1983. A member of the Republican Party, she als ...
1978: Tip O'Neill,
Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee ...
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Sarah Weddington Sarah Catherine Ragle Weddington (February 5, 1945 – December 26, 2021) was an American attorney, law professor, advocate for women's rights and reproductive health, and member of the Texas House of Representatives. She was best known for rep ...


Notable events photographed

1971: Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstration on Boston Common; camp-out and arrests in Lexington, Memorial Day weekend; demonstration against the invasion of Cambodia in front of the ITT building on Park Avenue, NYC. 1972: Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach; Allard Lowenstein congressional campaign 1973: A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention; Manhattan Women's Political Caucus Tennis Celebrity Fundraiser at the Park Avenue Armory; William Van den Heuvel primary campaign; Senate Watergate Committee at the Capitol; New Democratic Coalition Convention; mock bombing street theater and demonstration against the invasion of Cambodia in front of the ITT Building, Park Avenue, NYC; Ramsey Clark senatorial campaign 1974: Impeach Nixon rally, Brooklyn College; Demonstration in front of ''The New York Times'' for the use of the term MS (which the paper adopted in 1986); Cookie Monster's debut with Frank Oz at the Advertising Council's Media News conference, 11/06/74; New Democratic Coalition Convention; "Titters presents: A Seminar on Funny Womanhood"; Bali, Kathmandu, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Zurich (photographed in color) 1975: Gala Fashion as Fantasy event at Rizzoli bookstore; Dorothy Pirozzi, blind cosmetologist at work at the Lighthouse for the Blind; Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute opening; demonstration against Senate Bill 1, Foley Square, by the Committee against Repressive Legislation; Concord Bicentennial reenactment of "the shot heard 'round the world"; Holography exhibit opening, International Center of Photography/ICP and Henri Lartigue/Louise Dahl-Wolfe workshop;Fortieth Anniversary of the Hayden Planetarium party Howard Samuels campaign for Governor; fabrication of Robert Murray's "Quinnipiac" statue 1976: International Center of Photography / ICP 2nd Anniversary party, "Masters of the Camera" opening; Plains, Georgia, in the week before and election night; the Triple Crown: Preakness, Derby and Belmont Stakes; Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden and vicinity, including the Women's Caucus and street rallies; marches for the ERA in NYC; National Women's Political Caucus Democratic Task Force and the Democratic Women's Agenda "A Party with a Purpose: To Strengthen the Role of Women in Politics" fundraiser at Lincoln Center; Second International Festival of Women's Films party at the French consulate; Second Annual Ed and Sylvia Sullivan Award to Howard Cosell at the Waldorf Astoria; The Paris Opera "coming to the US for the first time in its 307-year history as France's bicentennial gift"; press conference of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case. 1977: 13th Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York at the World Trade Center; Museum of Modern Art / MOMA Charlotte Moorman performance playing cello in a bag; Lynn Glauber Darryl Gray and Dancers at the 92nd St. Y; campaigns of Carol Bellamy, Joel Harnett; NY State Women's Meeting and First National Women's Conference,Viva Magazine, March 1978 "United We Stand, Scenes from the National Women's Conference by Diana Mara Henry Houston, Nov. 19–21, photographed on assignment as official photographer for the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year


References


External links


Digitized images by Diana Mara Henry at U Mass Special Collections and University ArchivesDiana Mara Henry Photographs: A Finding Aid.Schlesinger Library
, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Diana Mara Henry web site
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