30 For 30: Sold!

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re featuring items from the PWP Archives* each day on this blog. In looking back, we see not only where we started, but how far photography, women, and the world have come since 1975.

Though PWP’s Archive is small, it tells of larger things: women coming into photography, photography going digital, the medium rising in the art world. When the group was founded in 1975, few galleries devoted space to photographic work. But as the 80s rolled in, the market took off. In 1983, PWP held an auction at the Images Gallery to raise money. There was no Internet yet, so word was spread through trade publications and paper invitations.

Invitation for 1983 PWP benefit auction at Images Gallery

Invitation for 1983 PWP benefit auction at Images Gallery

Ad in Photo Collector's Newsletter for 1983 PWP benefit auction

Ad in Photo Collector’s Newsletter for 1983 PWP benefit auction

At PWP’s 25th Anniversary Gala Party and Fundraiser at the Swann Galleries in 2000, sponsors included Kodak, Polaroid, and Clone-A-Chrome–companies and technologies that suffered as the digital wave swept in. The world and field were changing very fast.

PWP 25th Anniversary party and fundraiser at the Swann Galleries in 2000

PWP 25th Anniversary party and fundraiser at the Swann Galleries in 2000

– Catherine Kirkpatrick

*The PWP Archives were acquired by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library of Emory University

Links to all the 30 For 30 Women’s History Month blogs:
Help Me Please! Hopelessly Waiting…
Exhibition and Anger
Spreading the Word
Early Ads On Paper
Cards and Letters
A Lady, a Truck, a Singing Dog
Women of Vision
A Show of Their Own
Taking It To the Street
Sisters of Sister Cities
Sold!
Education and More
Face of a Changing City
Digital Enabling
Expanding Walls and Other Possibilities
A Wonderful Life–Lady Style
Branding–the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Great Change Sweeps In
PWP Goes Live!
Honoring the Upcoming
Continuity Through Change
Reaching Out
Eye a Woman Naked
Rapidly Multiplying Alternative Options
Women In the World, As Themselves
Kudos!
Friends Who Overcame and Inspired
Reversing the Gaze
Photography and More
Chicks Telling It Like It Is
Looking Back With Thanks

 

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