Through a Lens Brightly: Women, Photography & Change A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month Photographer Rivka Shifman Katvan creates diverse narratives that range from intimate backstage scenes during Broadway plays, the daily existence of eccentric Catskills villagers, the mysterious lives of mannequins reflected in store windows, and fairy tale–like scenes of Coney [...]
Through a Lens Brightly: Women, Photography & Change A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month “Before street photographers took Manhattan by storm, there was Helen Levitt. An artistic pioneer and the ultimate photographer’s photographer, Levitt lived as a total enigma, determined to dodge the public eye in favor of what she loved most: [...]
Through a Lens Brightly: Women, Photography & Change A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month Today photography is a major force in the art world. Prints sell for thousands of dollars, and photographers like Cindy Sherman and Annie Leibovitz are global names. But there was a time, not too long ago, when [...]
Through a Lens Brightly: Women, Photography & Change A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month Gigi Stoll began photography while working as a fashion model, using a Polaroid camera to snap pictures of friends. After covering the Leu Family Iron at a tattoo convention in Amsterdam, her images were featured in a gallery on [...]
Through a Lens Brightly: Women, Photography & Change A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month For some, it begins as a way to fill out a résumé. Like applying to college or for a job, serving a cause indicates that a person is well-rounded with ties to a world beyond them self. For others, [...]
November 8, 2012, New York, NY: An exhibition by Professional Women Photographers juried by Amy Arbus will open at the Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street (btw Water Street & Front Street), Dumbo, Brooklyn, on Monday, November 19, 2012 with a reception from 6:30 – 8 p.m. The show is up in the gallery now and will [...]
Once it was an American Eden. Fish swam in its waters, animals and Indians lived along its shores. It was longer then, wider too. Most of all it, was clean. But where water flows, industry follows, and by the late 1800s, Newtown Creek, the 3.8 mile channel* dividing western Brooklyn from western Queens, was lined [...]
Professional Women Photographers announces a Bushwick Walking/Photography Tour guided by PWP member Meryl Meisler on Saturday, June 23rd. The group will meet at 10:30am at the Swallow Café at 49 Bogart St, Brooklyn (closest subway stop: Morgan Ave on the L line). We will walk/talk/photograph around Bushwick’s main gallery district, head up some funky industrial side streets to Bushwick Avenue, then head back towards [...]
From humble beginnings in Brooklyn, Ruth Gruber rose by her own talent and determination to become a writer, photographer, and humanitarian of the world. At twenty, she was the youngest Ph.D.; at age one hundred, with the exhibition Photographs as Witness, 1944-47 at Soho Photo Gallery, she is still going strong. Gruber was born in [...]
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 This participating photographer asked to remain anonymous and PWP honored her request. Which woman photographer inspired you the most? A: More than anyone else, my mother. I almost hate to admit it. [...]