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I just spent an evening with Bella, scanning some of my images in from the years I photographed her, 1972 to 1980. She was my leader, and my photographs were used in her posters, flyers and press kits.(See some of those, below...) I have created a slide show of Bella Abzug for your enjoyment.
As Chair of the President's Commission on International Women's Year she hired me to be its official photographer and well as official photographer for the New York State Women's Meeting, Albany, and the First National Women's Conference in Houston, 1977. I hope you enjoy those slide shows too!Most of the slide shows on this website are also available for purchase in book form or for display at your meeting or celebration.
Photographs are all Copyright © Diana Mara Henry.
Contact us for permission to reproduce them or to schedule an illustrated lecture.
The Jewish Women's Archive postcards, website and exhibits feature many of Diana Mara Henry's photographs of Bella Abzug, including this one, and of others in their pantheon, including Grace Paley. Diana Mara Henry's experiences and photographs are also included in their exhibit, "Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution."
Enjoy these campaign materials from Bella's race for Mayor. Above, in the crush of campaigning along the sidewalk, Bella is accompanied by her daughter Liz now head of Liz Abzug Consulting Services and the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and behind her, in boater, Harold Holzer, who became a renowned Shakespeare scholar and Metropolitan Museum Vice-President.
For your amusement, below, two of Bella as a Delegate at the 1972 Democratic National Convention,
at right with poet Allen Ginsberg.
Photos and text Copyright © Diana Mara Henry. Email us with any questions or for permission to use.
NO DMH photos in the above ad, just a pleasant piece of memorabilia....
Photographs by Diana Mara Henry, far left and right in spread in NY MAgazine, 6/20/1977.
The photograph above is of Bella at the Battery, the first time I saw Bella. I had neard her interviewed on the radio, and her voice made me think I wanted to meet her. It was 1972. She was protesting the jerrymandering of her district on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and the news report announced the time of the press conference. I heigh-tailed it down to the other end of Manahttan, and I was so excited, I dropped my lens as I was kneeling at her feet to take the pictures. I brought the photographs up to her campaign headwuarters, met Mim Kelber, and this one was chosen for some super large posters for her campaign, as well as for this flyer.
