January 2012 Newsletter  Vol 6, Issue 6 Sponsored by  Learn more about Tamron Products at www.tamron-usa.com. Look for specials at the bottom of this newsletter. Month, Year – Vol 1, Issue 1 In This Issue Monthly Meeting BLOG of the Year 2nd International Open Call for Entry News from the Education Desk Cuban Photography Exhibit Amazon [...]

In 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice paid $8,000 for drapes to cover the bare-breasted Spirit of Justice statue that stands behind the podium where news conferences are held. It was the time of Bush, Ashcroft, and the resurgent Right. In Florence, Italy, where Dianora Niccolini was born, there is none of that. The body, male and female, [...]

PWP’s eNewsletter is sponsored by  Learn more about TAMRON products atwww.tamron.com. Volume 6 | Issue 4 | November 2011 What a busy month! Just as the leaves [...]

If you attend a Claudia Kunin exhibit, you’ll be given a pair of those funny glasses. Wait a minute, you say, aren’t they for movies? From the 50’s? Isn’t that technology… kind of old? Actually, it’s ancient. The  concept of stereoscopy, the presentation of two very similar pictures, side by side, for combination in the mind, was [...]

PWP’s eNewsletter is sponsored by Learn more about TAMRON products at www.tamron.com. Volume 5 | Issue 7 | February 2011 Greetings from the Board This [...]

This isn’t about Shoshana. There have been e-mails with tears and testimonials. This is not the place for that. This blog is about the experience of women in photography from the 1970’s on, when PWP was founded. But the history of woman in photography is not just about cameras and film and working against whatever [...]

She’s always dressed like a babe: white trench coat with no sign of anything underneath, a  clinging jumpsuit, a sparkly blouse that reveals far more than it covers. Then again, it was TV and ratings were involved. When Angie Dickinson starred from 1974 to 1978 as Sgt. Leanne “Pepper” Anderson in NBC’s Police Woman, it was [...]

PWP’s eNewsletter is sponsored by  Learn more about TAMRON products at www.tamron.com. Volume 5 | Issue 6 | January 2011 Greetings from the Board Happy New [...]

PWP’s eNewsletter is sponsored by  Learn more about TAMRON products at www.tamron.com. Volume 5 | Issue 5 | December 2010 Greetings from the Board First and [...]

BOV: The Life – An Appreciation of Dannielle Hayes As we know, in the beginning there was a show. Fashion Institute of Technology, 1975, Breadth of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers, a historic exhibition out of which PWP developed. But there was another vision going on, a life and personal outlook. Last spring I arranged to [...]