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30 For 30: Help Me, Please! Hopelessly Waiting…
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 women, photography, and the world have come since 1975. The letters, yellowing now, came from all over: Omaha, Cincinnati, St. Louis—even a few foreign lands. Some were typed on personal letterhead, others scrawled on scraps of paper: “…very interested in a group that helps to support and promote women in the male-dominated field.” “Being a woman in the profession of photography has been an experience, believe me.” “…help me, please! Hopelessly waiting.” They came to Professional Women Photographers in the 1970s and 80s, a time when women were entering the field, [continue reading...]
30 For 30: PWP Goes Live!
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. 1975 was the founding year not only for PWP, but also for Microsoft and Apple Computer. At the time, most people couldn’t imagine how digital technology would change not only the way they took pictures, but the way they lived. In PWP’s earliest days ads, memos, and publications were done on paper. But in 1999, Babs Armour led an effort to create a website that would make the organization accessible from anywhere in the world. The first version of pwponline.org launched [continue reading...]
PWP Member Show to Feature the Botanical World
In May 2018, Professional Women Photographers will create an installation of member images at the Queens Botanical Garden. Called Flora, it invites PWP photographers to explore the botanical world and its impact on human life through all seasons. Imagery will be wide-ranging, embracing fruit, flowers, foliage and trees, as well as the interaction between people and plants, literal or implied. In fact, the relationship between the human sphere and the botanical world is of particular interest to the Garden. The exhibition is open to all PWP members, with each guaranteed acceptance of one image. The show will run from May 4th through August 8th, 2018, with a deadline for entries of Friday, March 9th. It is a wonderful chance for work [continue reading...]
PWP Exhibit: The Power of Tones!
Professional Women Photographers is proud to announce The Power of Tones, an exhibition celebrating monotone photography. Featuring work by PWP members, the show will be on view at: The Jadite Gallery December 5 – 16, 2017 (gallery open Tuesday – Saturday 12:00-6:00 pm) Opening Reception – Thursday, December 7, 2017 6:00-8:00 pm 413 West 50th Street New York City – Catherine Kirkpatrick
Sources & Choices: Leslie Tucker
Today photography is more than a beautiful single image. In its series Sources & Choices, PWP speaks with artists who are incorporating photographs into their work in unique and personal ways. Leslie Tucker is the daughter of a psychiatrist and was raised in the Boston area. Her early artistic influences include MAD Magazine, TV commercials, and her father’s mysterious profession. What emerged from this was a passion for satire, consumer culture and decoding human nature. She currently lives in Manhattan’s East Village and has a studio in Bushwick, where she recently had an installation in Mapping Bushwick at In-Case Art Projects. PWP: How did photographs make their way into your work? Leslie Tucker: Traditional artistic media was too slow for me, [continue reading...]