Author Description

Diana Mara Henry began her career in Communications in college as a photo editor and reporter for the Harvard Crimson, 1967-1969. After college she was a researcher for NBC news documentary, "From Here to the Seventies" (1969) and continued through 1970 as a General Assignment Reporter for the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse metropolitan daily. She returned to her career in photojournalism in 1971, specializing in photographing the campaigns of 1972, including the campaigns of George McGovern-from the New Hampshire primaries to the National Democratic Convention, and beyond - and of Bella Abzug and Elizabeth Holtzman. These photographs were used in campaign materials including posters, fliers, tee-shirts and continue to be re-shown in celebratory events, websites, textbooks and other publications and exhibits. Her other extended coverages include Vietnam Veterans, 1970-1981; election night in Plains, Georgia, 1976; Women Office Workers/Nine-to-Five, 1979; the Women's Pentagon Action, 1980; One-Room Schools and Schoolteachers of Vermont and NY, and the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp, Alsace, France. The most-published photographs of her career come from her assignment coverage of the First National Women's Conference in Houston, TX, as official photographer for the National Commission on International Women's Year. Those photographs reside in the Library of Congress, the National Archives. A collection of 500 of her photographs resides at the Schlesinger Library since 1976, when hers was their first contemporary photographer's collection; in 2008 she was awarded her a grant to research the writings of 18 women in their collections who attended the First National Women's Conference. She is also the recipient of an individual artist's grant from the NY State Council on the Arts and an Artist-in-Residence grant from the NY Foundation for the Arts.The collected works of Diana Mara Henry including 80,000 negatives, slides, prints and related ephemera of the hund