Through The Photographer's Eyes: Diana Mara Henry 20th Century Photographer Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photo editor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. After graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in Government in 1969, Henry worked as a researcher with NBC News and as a general assignment reporter for the Staten Island Advance. In 1971 she began to work as a freelance photographer.

As official photographer for the First National Women’s Conference, Henry had unlimited access to many of the most prominent activists of the 1970s. Her photographs have appeared in government documents, magazines, books such as Newsweek’s Pictures of the Year 1977, and the 1989 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play The Heidi Chronicles. They have been exhibited in many locations including a one-woman show at the Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY; The Park Avenue Armory, NYC; and The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, Richmond, VA. In addition to the UMass Amherst Libraries, Henry’s photographs are in the collection of the National Archives.

Featured speakers include: Laura L. Lovett, Clara McLaughlin, Ed Murphy, Melba Toliver, Judy Tallwing-McCarthy as well as Henry herself.