30 For 30: Taking It To The Street
To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re featuring items from the PWP Archives* each day on this blog. In looking back, we see not only where we started, but how far photography, women, and the world have come since 1975.
In 1983, PWP participated in an Art Parade that marched along upper Fifth Avenue, Manhattan’s “Museum Mile.” Meryl Meisler, Tequila Minsky, and Mariette Pathy Allen, president of PWP from 1984 to 1992, designed and executed a shimmering banner and promotional materials. Stephanie Cohen took these iconic shots of the march.
PWP group marching in the 1983 Art Parade ©Stephanie Cohen
Meryl Meisler remembers: “I’d recently joined Professional Women Photographers, which remains my grownup “Girl Scout Troop” to this day. Mariette Pathy Allen didn’t have to ask me twice to help design the banners for the 5th Avenue Art Parade. Another PWP member, Teq Minsky, helped make the roll of film and we became fast friends and have remained so ever since. Patricia Jean O’Brien, Dave Channon, and Barbara Alper were among the marchers.”
PWP group in the 1983 Art Parade ©Stephanie Cohen
Concept drawing for the PWP banner and signs by Meryl Meisler
– Catherine Kirkpatrick
*The PWP Archives were acquired by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library of Emory University
Links to all the 30 For 30 Women’s History Month blogs:
Help Me Please! Hopelessly Waiting…
Exhibition and Anger
Spreading the Word
Early Ads On Paper
Cards and Letters
A Lady, a Truck, a Singing Dog
Women of Vision
A Show of Their Own
Taking It To the Street
Sisters of Sister Cities
Sold!
Education and More
Face of a Changing City
Digital Enabling
Expanding Walls and Other Possibilities
A Wonderful Life–Lady Style
Branding–the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Great Change Sweeps In
PWP Goes Live!
Honoring the Upcoming
Continuity Through Change
Reaching Out
Eye a Woman Naked
Rapidly Multiplying Alternative Options
Women In the World, As Themselves
Kudos!
Friends Who Overcame and Inspired
Reversing the Gaze
Photography and More
Chicks Telling It Like It Is
Looking Back With Thanks