DMH Photography - About DMH

PHOTOGRAPHER
Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her A.B. in Government in 1969. She has specialized in interpreting social issues and events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published.

POLITICS
She covered the 1972 and 1976 National Democratic Conventions and the campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, McGovern, Lowenstein, Abzug, Holtzman, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and election night in Plains, Georgia.

THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
As official photographer for the First National Women's Conference, she had unlimited access to many of the crucial women of the 1970's. These photographs have appeared in many government documents, magazines, books such as The Perfect Portfolio, Newsweek's Pictures of the Year 1977 and the 1989 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles, and have been exhibited in many locations including in a one-woman show at the Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY.

HONORS
A grant from the New York State Council on the Arts funded her 1987 exhibit about the more than 200 one-room schools of rural Ulster County. Her exhibit of one-room schools and school teachers of Vermont was displayed at the Brattleboro Museum and both exhibits combined shown at American International College in 2006.

COLLECTIONS
Diana Mara Henry's photographs are in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Her work has been featured in numerous one-woman and group shows, and she was listed in The Photograph Collector's Guide by Lee Witkin and Barbara London, and in Who's Who of Women in America.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, LECTURER AND TEACHER
The recipient of a 40-day artist-in-residence grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Diana Mara Henry has been a presenter on digital photography to MacWorld in San Francisco and on various other topics of her life and work to the American Society of Picture Professionals, the Women's Caucus for the Arts, the Society for Photographic Education, the French Library and Cultural Center in Boston, and other organizations. She also taught French at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Defense Language Institute and photography and English in all grades and under the auspices of Marist College at Otisville Federal Penitentiary, NY.

MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL
Originator and Director of the Community Workshop Program at the International Center for Photography, NYC, she taught black-and-white and Cibachrome photography there from 1975 to 1979. The ICP Library houses the exhibit Women Photographers of NY State which she created in 1977 for the NY State Women's Meeting at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.

She served as Vice-President and Director of Programs for the Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY, and helped lobby successfully for a more than $1 million grant from the City of NY for restoration of this historic house and creation of the first museum dedicated to a photographer in the U.S.

Diana Mara Henry’s recent work: For publication: recent histories of Heschel (Spiritual Radical / Kaplan), McGovern (The Liberals’ Moment / Miroff), The Women’s Movement (Feminist Coalitions / Gilmore); for exhibit (The Park Avenue Armory, NYC; The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, Richmond, VA); and for display as TV programs (In the Life TV) plenary presentations (Bella Abzug Leadership Institute’s “Freedom on Our Terms” conference, NYC, McGovern Birthday celebration, DC) and websites / online exhibits (Jewish Women’s Archive Women of Valor and Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution). Although not seeking assignments, she accepted to capture Ken Burns and Paul Barnes for the September, 2007 cover story of Editors Guild magazine.

Diana Mara Henry is more and more in demand as a speaker and presenter of her own life and work as well as of the Women’s Movement at conferences and to college audiences:"Women CHange America Conference at Smith college; at the Organization of American Historians Centennial Conference, Minneapolis; to the History and Photography Departments of Metropolitan Community College and the community at large, Omaha, Nebraska; to the Women’s Studies Department, with concurrent exhibit, Trinity College, Hartford CT; and at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger LIbrary Summer Seminar on Gender History, "Sequels to the 1960s,"June, 2008.

Illustrations of these assignments are on the Spotlight page of this website. You may contact us to schedule a speaking engagement for your group.

Exhibits available with text pieces

Women on the Move: The First National Women's Conference (40 b/w IIxI4's,4 b/w 16x20's, I color 20x24) Click Here for Press Releases		Most recently shown: Tower Square, Springfield, MA. March, 2004 Also shown at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 1998.
One Room Schools of Ulster County (40 b/w and color 16x20's, including historic photographs)		Previously at the Catskill Center for Photography, the Women's Studio Workshop and the Erpf Catskill Cultural Center, 1986 One-Room Schools and Teachers, combining both exhibits....
One Room Schools and School Teachers of Vermont (25 b/w 16x20's, text by Prof. Margaret Nelson, Middlebury College)		...most recently shown at American International College, September, 2006 Click here for newspaper article Previously at the Brattleboro Museum, 1980
Libel (28 b/w 16x20's) An exhibit of photographs with embedded text. Challenges the acceptance of the photographic image as truth.		Shown at the Pacific Grove Arts Center in 1988.
The Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp (10 b/w 12xI6's, 5-16x20's. Text by survivor Eugene Marlot) Vanishing Jews Of Alsace		Shown at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA 1990, with audio environment.
Photographs of France: Castles and Stud-Farms		Shown at the Overseas Press Club, NYC, 1984