She also wrote feature and news articles for the Crimson about Jerry Rubin and Frank Bardacke and the Boston Black Panther Party[9] and "Probing Antioch College's Novel Psyche"[10] Diana Mara Henry first set foot at the Alice Austen House in 1970, when she was writing a feature article for the Staten Island Advance,[11] the NYC borough's Newhouse daily newspaper for which she was working as a General Assignment reporter.
The house was in disrepair and deteriorated further over the years, as DMH researched the work of the owner (1866–1952) for whom it is named, pioneering photographer E. Alice Austen.
The group undertook to place a marker in a ceremony at Alice Austen's gravesite[12] and, after Ann Novotny's demise, to have a Staten Island ferry named in her honor.
[19][20] In 1971, Henry began to learn the technical side of photography by working as an assistant at Steve Eisenberg's studio at 123 West 28th Street, and by starting to photograph one of her most enduring subjects: the anti-war movement, including a demonstration at the Internal Revenue Service "Don't Pay War Taxes."
[25] Henry's adventures with the George McGovern campaign,[26] starting with getting on the press bus in New Hampshire and going through the convention in Miami Beach, at which she photographed a young Bill Clinton,[27] are detailed in her book, Women on the Move.
[28] In her introduction to Henry's book, Professor Nancy C. Unger, author of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History[29] (Oxford University Press) writes: "In Women on the Move, Diana Mara Henry's striking photographs bring to life the excitement, the tension, the joy, and the drama of this inspiring period in which anything seemed possible ...
Henry's photographs for Reliable Source in Miami illustrated articles including "The issue is more than women" by Gloria Steinem on October 7, 1972.
Invited to speak as keynote, presenter or panelist on the topic of women's history and her photography, topics and occasions have included the Society for Photographic Education Northeastern region conference, slide show, 1982; the American Society of Picture Professionals, slide show, 1983;[36] The Radcliffe Club of NY at the Harvard Club, a presentation on the work of Alice Austen, 1985; "Photography as a Political Art" with panelists Alex McLean and Anne Whiston Spirn, 40th reunion of the class of 1969, Harvard,2004; "Making Women's History Visible" panel presentation "Preserving the Passion of the Past" at Smith College, 2003[37] Henry wrote about photography for the American Society of Picture Professionals in 1981:[38] "Fifty Great Women Photographers; An Annotated Checklist"[39] Since 1985, she has been writing, translating from the French, publishing and speaking[40] about the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp[41] and its Nacht und Nebel political prisoners, including the Jewish spy Andre Scheinmann.
1973: Group exhibit at Hanratty's, 5/5-6/1, curated by Lee Romero, with Rachel Cowan et al. 1975: "Breadth of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers" juried by Liliane de Cock, Barbara Morgan, Marge Neikrug, Anne Tucker "The Bus Show" with Bill Cunningham, Lois Connor, Scott Hyde, Lilo Raymond, Ruth Orkin, W. Eugene Smith, Jim Alinder, et al.[44] 1976: "Images of Women", Portland, ME International Women's Arts Festival: "Woman Photographs Man: A Slide Presentation", Rockefeller Center 1978: "City Games", Midtown Y Gallery, 6/22-9/17/78 with Larry Fink, Nancy Rudolf, Arthur Tress, et al. NY Photographers' Forum exhibit, Milwaukee Center for Photography, 2/26-3/22/1978 1979: "East Side-West Side: New York Photography", Roanoke College, Olin Hall Gallery 11/4-12/2/79 1980: Women, Image, Nature", Temple University, Tyler School of Art, all galleries, curated by Martha Madigan, with Joan Lyons, Barbara Morgan, Bea Nettles, Barbara Crane, Mary Beth Edelson et al., 12/1-12/19/1980[45] 1981: "The Finished Print", curated by Larry Fink and Martha Madigan 1982: "Focus on Women", The First Women's Bank, with James Van der Zee, Bettye Lane, Tana Hoban, et al.,7/5-9/10/1982 1983: "Photographs from France", solo exhibit, Overseas Press Club, 12/1-31/1983 "One Room Schools and Schoolteachers", Granite Hills Photography Gallery, Hardwick, VT, 6/29-7/11/1983 "Photographs: Selected Work of the Last Fifteen Years", solo exhibit, Ballard Mill Center for the Arts, Malone, NY 11/4-12/16/1983 1984: "One Room Schools and Schoolteachers of Vermont" solo exhibit, curated by Rod Faulds, text by Professor Margaret Nelson, at the Brattleboro Museum 4/27-6/24/1984[46] "First National Photography Resume Exhibition", Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Brian Gormley, Kim Keever, Noel Mapstead and Diana Mara Henry, Peggy Doyle's 8/6-9/10/1984 1985: National Women's Hall of Fame, solo exhibit, official photographs of the First National Women's Conference, March 1983 1986: Catskill Center for Photography 8th and 9th (1987) Annual Benefit Auction of Contemporary and Vintage Photographs and Works on Paper 1987: "One-Room Schools of Ulster County"[47] solo exhibit of the documentary project[48] funded by an Individual Artist's Grant from the NY State Council on the Arts, shown at the Women's Studio Workshop, Inskirts Gallery, Rosendale, NY 3/21-4/16 1987;[49] the Erpf Catskill Cultural Center 5/2-5/31/1987 and the Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY[50] 1988: "Libel", an exhibit of Photographs and Words, solo exhibit, Pacific Grove Arts Center, 10/21-11/26/1988[51] 1989: Slide show at intermission of the first Broadway run of The Heidi Chronicles, with Bettye Lane and Ken Regan[52] Member Exhibit, Pacific Grove Art Center, 5/19-6/24/1989 Monterey County Women's Exhibition, sponsored by the Monterey County Cultural Council 1990: "Photowork '90", curated by Barbara Millstein, 2/16-3/16/90 "The Divine Feminine" 1991 "Vanishing Jews of Alsace and the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp", solo exhibit with text of L'Enfer d'Alsace by Eugene Marlot voiced by 4 dozen residents of Carmel, CA, at the Carl Cherry Center, March 1991.
1973: Cover photo: La Forteresse, by Pierrette Fleutiaux, Juillard 1977: High Lady: For Women Who Dare: feature about "Tania Temerson, a 28-year-old American whose career as a jockey has taken her to ...France."
The "Diana Mara Henry: Twentieth Century Photographer" collection is now housed at the Du Bois Library, U Mass Amherst.
[58] 1967–1969: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Walter Gropius, Nathan Pusey, Erik Erikson, Stanley Hoffman, Martin Peretz, Bill Baird, Julian Wasser, Jacques Lipchitz, Mary Ingram Bunting, Elma Lewis, Peggy Cass, Elsa Martinelli, Donovan, Suzanne Pleshette, Mildred Natwick, Ian McShane, Rowland Scherman 1972: George McGovern, Eleanor McGovern, Bella Abzug (through 1980), Elizabeth Holtzman (through 1980), Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, Thomas Eagleton, Sargent Shriver, Eunice Shriver, Shirley Chisolm, Charles Rangel, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Jesse Jackson, Gloria Steinem (through 1980), Lawrence O'Brien, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Kennedy, Richard Tuck, Richard Wade, Allard Lowenstein (through 1980), Herman Badillo, John Lindsay, Abraham Beame, Robert Wagner, David Dinkins, Robert Drinan, Arnold Weiss, Jean O'Leary, Douglas Ireland, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Henry Jackson, 1973: William Fulbright, Lowell Weicker, William Van Den Heuvel, James Brown, Paul O'Dwyer, David Halberstam, Art Buchwald, Carl Bernstein, Brit Hume, Anne Klein, Bob Mackie, Eleanor Lambert Berkson, Clovis Ruffin, Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Ogden Reid, Mario Cuomo, Mario Biaggi, Bill Cosby, Alan King, Rosie Casals, Billie Jean King, Bud Collins, Betty Friedan (and decade following), Donna Shalala 1974: John Paul Getty III, Egon von Fürstenberg, Lowell Nesbitt, Andrew Crispo, Jeannette Watson (and decade following), Fred Kittler, Jeanne Suydam, Katherine Johnson, Jackie Bograd, Olive Watson, Frank Oz, Cookie Monster, Victor Gottbaum, Ann Beatts 1975: Howard Samuels, Cliff Gorman, Farkas family, Isaac Asimov, Berry Berenson Perkins, Anthony Perkins, Mrs. Osgood Perkins, Peter Tufo, Lee Radziwill, Salvador Dalí, Ultraviolet, Marion Javits, Thomas Watson Jr., George Plimpton, Arnold Scaasi, Mary Lasker, Sylvia Crane, Robert Polo, Dominick Dunne, Charles James, Karl Lagerfeld, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol (and decade following), Rudi Gernreich, Deborah Turbeville, Adolfo, Joanne and Alfred Stern, Nicky and Kenneth J.
Lane, Eugene McCarthy, John and Edmee Slocum, Jay Gunther, Lucinda Kew, Charles Coles, Marienne and Bill Free, Tony Olivieri, Rick Bienecke, Candy Klugman, Wendy and Jeffry Gates, Grete Schuller, 1976: Diana Vreeland, Marisa Berenson, Bill Blass, Pauline Trigere, Sister Joan Kirby, Lillian Carter, Billy Carter, Jimmy Carter, Hugh Carter, Las Barrera, Leroy Jolly, Ramsey Clark, Walter Mondale, Howard Metzenbaum, Lubbavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ralph Demers, Abraham Zalmanson, Joe Grandmaison, John Neuhaus, Peggy Kerry, Ed Koch, Candice Bergen, Liz Carpenter, Barbara Mikulski, Karen DeCrow, Dyan Cannon, Jeanne Moreau, Storm de Hirsch, Ruth Ford, Dotson Raider, Tammy Grimes, Andrea Markovicci, Sylvia Miles, Diana Maxwell-Smith, Fred McDarrah, Kate Millett, Margarethe Von Trotta, Claudia Weil, Telly Savalas, Joey Adams, Harry Platt, Bartle Bull, Justine Cushing Freddy Eberstadt, Kathy Johnson, George Beane, Anthony Haden-Guest, Steve Mazoh, Lucinda Watson, Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Robert Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Robert De Machy, Marjorie Neikrug, Susan Meiselas; John Szarkowski, Ralph Baum, Lydia Fischer Frank, David Plowden, Patricia Carbine, Sir Georg Solti, Mirella Freni, Rolf Lieberman, Marion Javits, Kurt Moll 1977: Jeannette McElvenny, Steven M.L.
Aronson, George H. Beane, Dayton Carr, Mark R. Chartrand III, Christopher Forbes, Joseph Hammer, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, William M. Hitchcock, Thomas Lee Jones, Lorna Livingston, William C. Murray, Henry Eliot Plimack, Freddy Plimpton, Jocelyn Kress Turner, Susan Watson, Olive F. Watson, Patti Smith, Jean S. Cartier, Eliot Erwitt, Harvey Fondiller, Robert Forbes, Will Fallar, Peter Galassi, Burt Glynn, Eliane Laffont, John Morris, Gene Thornton, Richard Golden, Jaydee Putterman, Enid Dinny Winslow, Pierre de Fenoyl, Barbara Jordan, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford, Patsy Mink, Linda Robb, Margaret Mead, Coretta Scott King, Phyllis Schlafly, Jean Stapleton, Mary Burke Nicholas, John Mack Carter, Hugh Carey, C. Delores Tucker, Jill Ruckelshaus, Caroline Bird, Mildred Jeffrey, Clara Beyer, Pulu Peneueta, Kathryn Clarenbach, Joan Gubbins, Mary Crisp, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Athanasakos, Lucy Komisar, Rita Brogan, Helvi Sipila, Margaret Heckler 1978: Tip O'Neill, Geraldine Ferraro, Sarah Weddington 1971: Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstration on Boston Common; camp-out and arrests in Lexington, Memorial Day weekend; demonstration against the invasion of Cambodia in front of the ITT building on Park Avenue, NYC.
Liebling Counter-Convention; Manhattan Women's Political Caucus Tennis Celebrity Fundraiser at the Park Avenue Armory;[60] William Van den Heuvel primary campaign; Senate Watergate Committee at the Capitol; New Democratic Coalition Convention; mock bombing street theater and demonstration against the invasion of Cambodia in front of the ITT Building, Park Avenue, NYC; Ramsey Clark senatorial campaign 1974: Impeach Nixon rally, Brooklyn College; Demonstration in front of The New York Times for the use of the term MS (which the paper adopted in 1986); Cookie Monster's debut with Frank Oz at the Advertising Council's Media News conference, 11/06/74; New Democratic Coalition Convention; "Titters presents: A Seminar on Funny Womanhood"; Bali, Kathmandu, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Zurich (photographed in color) 1975: Gala Fashion as Fantasy event at Rizzoli bookstore; Dorothy Pirozzi, blind cosmetologist at work[61] at the Lighthouse for the Blind; Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute opening;[62] demonstration against Senate Bill 1, Foley Square, by the Committee against Repressive Legislation; Concord Bicentennial reenactment of "the shot heard 'round the world";[63] Holography exhibit opening, International Center of Photography/ICP[64] and Henri Lartigue/Louise Dahl-Wolfe workshop;Fortieth Anniversary of the Hayden Planetarium party[65] Howard Samuels campaign for Governor; fabrication of Robert Murray's "Quinnipiac" statue[66] 1976: International Center of Photography / ICP 2nd Anniversary party, "Masters of the Camera" opening; Plains, Georgia, in the week before and election night; the Triple Crown: Preakness, Derby and Belmont Stakes; Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden[67] and vicinity, including the Women's Caucus[68] and street rallies;[69] marches for the ERA in NYC; National Women's Political Caucus Democratic Task Force and the Democratic Women's Agenda "A Party with a Purpose: To Strengthen the Role of Women in Politics" fundraiser at Lincoln Center;[70] Second International Festival of Women's Films party at the French consulate; Second Annual Ed and Sylvia Sullivan Award to Howard Cosell at the Waldorf Astoria; The Paris Opera "coming to the US for the first time in its 307-year history as France's bicentennial gift";[71] press conference of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case.