Diana Mara Henry

Diana Mara Henry (June 20, 1948, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a photojournalist, free-lance photographer, and feminist. She is the daughter of Carl and Edith (Entratter) Henry.

Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe College, as photo editor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize (1967) and received an A.B. in Government from Harvard University in 1969. As official photographer for the first National Women's Conference in Houston, 1977, she had unlimited access to many of the most important feminist leaders of the 1970s. Her photographs have appeared in many magazines and books such as The Perfect Portfolio, Newsweek's Pictures of the Year 1977 and the 1989 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles. She has exhibited in many locations which include a one-woman show at the Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY; the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America; The Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC. Henry is also known for her coverage of the 1972 and 1976 National Democratic Conventions and for her coverage of the campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, Elizabeth Holtzman, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter; and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

In the 1980s she served as Vice-President and Director of Programs for the Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY. With others she lobbied successfully for a large grant from the City of New York for restoration of this historic house and creation of the first museum dedicated to a photographer in the United States.

Her photography is also featured in the following publications Spiritual Radical, The Liberals’ Moment, Feminist Coalitions, The American Indian Graduate, Stayin'Alive: The 1970's and The Last Days of the Working Class. Recent exhibitions include: the Park Avenue Armory, NYC; the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, Richmond, VA; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; and the Jewish Women’s Archives's Women of Valor and Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution. Her papers are available at the Schlesinger Library.

References

• Diana Mara Henry Photographs: A Finding Aid. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
• Diana Mara Henry web site.

External links

• Diana Mara Henry Photographs: A Finding Aid. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
• Diana Mara Henry web site.