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Diana Mara Henry
Diana Mara Henry (born June 20, 1948, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American freelance photographer and photojournalist.
After attending Miss Doherty's College Preparatory School for Girls in Cincinnati, Henry entered the Lycée Français de New York where she pursued the Classique course of studies including six years of Latin and four years of Greek. During the summer of 1963 she stayed for several weeks with the family of Georges Simenon[who?] at their Chateau d'Echandens. Admitted a year early to Radcliffe College, she received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize (1967) for her sophomore essay, "The Concept of Time and History", published that same year in the Foundation for the study of Cycles Cycles Magazine, Vol XVII, pages 67,68,69. In the summer of 1968, she worked at publicity assistant on location for the David Wolper production of the film If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. She received her A.B. in Government from Harvard University in 1969.[citation needed]
Before turning to photography full-time in 1971, she worked as a researcher for the NBC News documentary, From Here to the Seventies, in 1969, and as a general assignment reporter, news and features, for the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse daily, in 1970.[citation needed]
Henry followed her father Carl Henry's path to Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1934. He gave her daughter her first camera, an Ansco Pioneer, when she was three years old and had himself been a filmmaker of his family's European travels in 1927 and 1929. Together they attended avant-garde film showings at the Cincinnati Museums and viewed North By Northwest multiple times. Henry's mother, Edith E. Henry, was a handbag and shoe designer. Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe College, as photo editor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. Her photography was also published during that time in Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the Harvard Lampoon Overkill Number, Brian Kahin's student film Barbara Baby (starring Barbara Lanckton Connors), The Boston Globe, Harvard Today, and Time magazine.
Her first paid assignments were for Dana Hall School and were published in the Dana Hall Bulletin Vols. 30 and 31. She illustrated the "Clean for Gene" (McCarthy) campaign pro bono. She also wrote feature and news articles for the Crimson about Jerry Rubin and Frank Bardacke and the Boston Black Panther Party and "Probing Antioch College's Novel Psyche"
Diana Mara Henry first set foot at the Alice Austen House in 1970, when she was writing a feature article for the Staten Island Advance, the NYC borough's Newhouse daily newspaper for which she was working as a General Assignment reporter.
The house was in disrepair and deteriorated further over the years, as DMH researched the work of the owner (1866–1952) for whom it is named, pioneering photographer E. Alice Austen. Diana Mara Henry, who had left the Advance to take up a career in photography, wanted to produce a book of famous women photographers to inspire and encourage young women to adopt the profession by offering them role models of other daring and accomplished women in the field. Upon discovering that Ann Novotny was preparing a book to be entitled Alice's World, Henry contacted her and joined The Friends of Alice Austen. The group undertook to place a marker in a ceremony at Alice Austen's gravesite and, after Ann Novotny's demise, to have a Staten Island ferry named in her honor. Henry's documentation of the condition of the house and the progress of the restoration were included in the Historic Structures Report that preceded and accompanied the saving of the house. The Alice Austen House, also named Clear Comfort, became a NYC Landmark when, as Vice-President of the Friends of the Alice Austen House, under the leadership of Margaret Riggs Buckwalter, Diana Mara Henry lobbied successfully for the city to grant $1,025,000 to restore the house and open it as a museum. Now a National Historic Landmark, the house was inducted in 2002 into the National Trust for Historic Preservation's highly selective group of Historic Artists' Homes and Studios.
Besides her photography of the Women's Movement, including paid assignments for the National Commission for the Observance of International Women's Year, Henry chose to photograph many events on her own initiative such as the Women's Pentagon Action in 1980 and the demonstration at The New York Times for the use of the term Ms in 1974, demonstration against decades-long sex experiments on cats at the Museum of Natural History, the 1977 strike at radio station WBAI against Pacifica, and other often obscure events and personalities that she considered historic and that would be unknown to this day without her visual testimony.[citation needed]
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Diana Mara Henry
Diana Mara Henry (born June 20, 1948, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American freelance photographer and photojournalist.
After attending Miss Doherty's College Preparatory School for Girls in Cincinnati, Henry entered the Lycée Français de New York where she pursued the Classique course of studies including six years of Latin and four years of Greek. During the summer of 1963 she stayed for several weeks with the family of Georges Simenon[who?] at their Chateau d'Echandens. Admitted a year early to Radcliffe College, she received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize (1967) for her sophomore essay, "The Concept of Time and History", published that same year in the Foundation for the study of Cycles Cycles Magazine, Vol XVII, pages 67,68,69. In the summer of 1968, she worked at publicity assistant on location for the David Wolper production of the film If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. She received her A.B. in Government from Harvard University in 1969.[citation needed]
Before turning to photography full-time in 1971, she worked as a researcher for the NBC News documentary, From Here to the Seventies, in 1969, and as a general assignment reporter, news and features, for the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse daily, in 1970.[citation needed]
Henry followed her father Carl Henry's path to Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1934. He gave her daughter her first camera, an Ansco Pioneer, when she was three years old and had himself been a filmmaker of his family's European travels in 1927 and 1929. Together they attended avant-garde film showings at the Cincinnati Museums and viewed North By Northwest multiple times. Henry's mother, Edith E. Henry, was a handbag and shoe designer. Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe College, as photo editor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. Her photography was also published during that time in Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the Harvard Lampoon Overkill Number, Brian Kahin's student film Barbara Baby (starring Barbara Lanckton Connors), The Boston Globe, Harvard Today, and Time magazine.
Her first paid assignments were for Dana Hall School and were published in the Dana Hall Bulletin Vols. 30 and 31. She illustrated the "Clean for Gene" (McCarthy) campaign pro bono. She also wrote feature and news articles for the Crimson about Jerry Rubin and Frank Bardacke and the Boston Black Panther Party and "Probing Antioch College's Novel Psyche"
Diana Mara Henry first set foot at the Alice Austen House in 1970, when she was writing a feature article for the Staten Island Advance, the NYC borough's Newhouse daily newspaper for which she was working as a General Assignment reporter.
The house was in disrepair and deteriorated further over the years, as DMH researched the work of the owner (1866–1952) for whom it is named, pioneering photographer E. Alice Austen. Diana Mara Henry, who had left the Advance to take up a career in photography, wanted to produce a book of famous women photographers to inspire and encourage young women to adopt the profession by offering them role models of other daring and accomplished women in the field. Upon discovering that Ann Novotny was preparing a book to be entitled Alice's World, Henry contacted her and joined The Friends of Alice Austen. The group undertook to place a marker in a ceremony at Alice Austen's gravesite and, after Ann Novotny's demise, to have a Staten Island ferry named in her honor. Henry's documentation of the condition of the house and the progress of the restoration were included in the Historic Structures Report that preceded and accompanied the saving of the house. The Alice Austen House, also named Clear Comfort, became a NYC Landmark when, as Vice-President of the Friends of the Alice Austen House, under the leadership of Margaret Riggs Buckwalter, Diana Mara Henry lobbied successfully for the city to grant $1,025,000 to restore the house and open it as a museum. Now a National Historic Landmark, the house was inducted in 2002 into the National Trust for Historic Preservation's highly selective group of Historic Artists' Homes and Studios.
Besides her photography of the Women's Movement, including paid assignments for the National Commission for the Observance of International Women's Year, Henry chose to photograph many events on her own initiative such as the Women's Pentagon Action in 1980 and the demonstration at The New York Times for the use of the term Ms in 1974, demonstration against decades-long sex experiments on cats at the Museum of Natural History, the 1977 strike at radio station WBAI against Pacifica, and other often obscure events and personalities that she considered historic and that would be unknown to this day without her visual testimony.[citation needed]