30 For 30: The Great Change Sweeps In
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 women, photography, and the world have come since 1975.
PWP was born in an analogue world in 1975. There was no online anything, so word of the organization was spread by publications printed on paper:
Early 1980s ad rates for “The PWP Times”
In those publications were ads for film services and darkroom facilities:
Ad for Dial-A-Darkroom in a PWP publication
But the world was changing fast. Here is an ad for a computer workshop at Photographics Unlimited, the darkroom complex where PWP held meetings in the early 1980s:
Ad for a computer workshop at Photographics Unlimited
The pace of technological accelerated rapidly in photography and the world at large. In 1998, PWP invited Alan D. Coleman, photo critic of the Village Voice, to speak about the impact of techonology. The lecture took place in the Kate Murphy Amphitheatre of the Fashion Institute of Technology:
In 1998 Alan D. Coleman spoke about digital technology
Computers and software began appearing in PWP class offerings. In 2002, it held a workshop on Photoshop at FIT:
2002 PWP computer workshop at FIT
These classes would expand in the 2000s to include instruction on personal websites, book design and publishing, social media and blogging as the digital bang opened new doors for photographers.
– 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