30 For 30: Continuity Through Change
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.
PWP speaker schedules for the 1981-82 season
PWP meetings were modeled on the consciousness raising groups of Women’s Lib. The first ones were held in apartments, then at Photographics Unlimited, Eastman Kodak, the Photo District Gallery, Pratt School of Professional Studies, St. Paul the Apostle Church, and now at the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
1988 PWP Newsletter recounting Raeanne Rubinstein’s talk
Through changes of location and vast changes in the field, each month from September through June, PWP meets to conduct business and hear a prominent photographer, usually a woman, speak about their life and art. Early speakers included Lilo Raymond, Ruth Orkin, Frances McLaughlin-Gill, Via Wynroth, Patt Blue, and Maggie Sherwood of the Floating Foundation of Photography.
PWP Newsletter featuring a talk by Eva Rubinstein
Recent luminaries include Elinor Carucci, Arlene Gottfried, Flo Fox, and Susan Meiselas who inspired all present with their words and pictures. (Note: Susan Meiselas was one of the photographers in the 1975 FIT exhibition Breadth of Vision from which PWP emerged.)
Arlene Gottfried presenting her work at PWP in 2009
Meetings are casual and congenial, allowing members and guests to interact with some of the legends of photography.
Arlene Gottfried signing books for PWP members in 2009
– 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
I look forward to the info and PWP history every day.
Thank you Catherine for all you have and are doing.