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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. At PWP’s 25th Anniversary Gala [continue reading...]
30 For 30: Sisters of Sister Cities
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. In 1990, an exchange show called Women Photographers: New York/Tokyo, Our Illusions and Reality took place at Nikon House in Rockefeller Center and the Konica Gallery in Japan. Mayor David Dinkins, who called his own city a “beautiful mosaic,” commended the exhibition in this letter: Mayor Dinkins writes: “For too long, women’s voices were not heard and their voices not heeded. To our credit, much has changed and today those voices and visions are heard not only in class rooms and [continue reading...]
30 For 30: Taking It To The Street
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. In 1983, PWP participated in an Art Parade that marched along upper Fifth Avenue, Manhattan’s “Museum Mile.” Meryl Meisler, Tequila Minsky, and Mariette Pathy Allen, president of PWP from 1984 to 1992, designed and executed a shimmering banner and promotional materials. Stephanie Cohen took these iconic shots of the march. Meryl Meisler remembers: “I’d recently joined Professional Women Photographers, which remains my grownup “Girl Scout Troop” to this day. Mariette Pathy Allen didn’t have to ask me twice to help design the [continue reading...]
30 For 30: A Show of Their Own
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. Photographers take pictures to show something, but for many years women had a hard time getting work on the wall. So creating opportunities for them to exhibit has always been crucial for PWP. In 1981, the group held its first show, The Me Generation, at Photographics Unlimited in Chelsea. The tag was coined by writer Tom Wolfe to describe the narcissism prevalent among baby boomers who came of age in the 1970s. It was a time of widespread disillusion (Watergate, Vietnam, [continue reading...]
30 For 30: Women of Vision
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. In 1982, Dianora Niccolini, PWP’s first president, edited Women of Vision, an anthology featuring the work of twenty women photographers. These included Barbara Morgan, Ruth Orkin, Lilo Raymond, Suzanne Opton, Eva Rubinstein, and Maggie Sherwood, founder of the Floating Foundation of Photography. Some are familiar names today, others less so. All were photographed by Stephanie Cohen, who also took many iconic images of PWP, and contributed her design skills to early PWP publications. In that day, word was spread by press releases [continue reading...]