Background

Diana Mara Henry was born on June 20, 1948 in Cincinnati. Daughter of Carl and Edith (Entratter) Henry.

Education

After attending Miss Doherty's College Preparatory School for Girls in Cincinnati, Diana Mara Henry entered the Lycée Français de New York where she pursued the Classique course of studies including six years of Latin and four years of Greek.

Admitted a year early to Radcliffe College, Diana Mara Henry received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize (1967) for her sophomore essay, "The Concept of Time and History".

In the summer of 1968, Diana Mara Henry worked at publicity assistant on location for the David Wolper production of the film If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Harvard University in 1969.

Career

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe College, as photo editor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. Before turning to photography full-time in 1971, Diana Mara Henry worked as a researcher for the NBC News documentary, From Here to the Seventies, in 1969, and as a general assignment reporter, news and features, for the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse daily, in 1970.

Diana Mara Henry covered the 1972 and 1976 National Democratic Conventions and the campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, McGovern, Lowenstein, Abzug, Holtzman, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and election night in Plains, Georgia.

As official photographer for the First National Women's Conference, Diana Mara Henry had unlimited access to many of the crucial women of the 1970's. These photographs have appeared in many government documents, magazines, books.

Achievements

• A grant from the New York State Council on the Arts funded her 1987 exhibit about the more than 200 one-room schools of rural Ulster County. Her exhibit of one-room schools and school teachers of Vermont was displayed at the Brattleboro Museum and both exhibits combined shown at American International College in 2006. Since her move to Vermont, they have been exhibited at the Memphremagog Artists Collaborative, 2012, and the Vermont Folklife Center and the Vermont History Museum, 2014.
  
  Diana Mara Henry's photographs are in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, where, in 1976, they constituted the first collection of the work of a contemporary photographer. In 2012, her photography archives were transferred by sale and gift to constitute a Special Collection at the Du Bois Library at U Mass Amherst where a couple of thousand images have already been scanned and an online exhibit was created. Her work has been featured in numerous one-woman and group shows, and she was listed in The Photograph Collector's Guide by Lee Witkin and Barbara London, and in Who's Who of Women in America.
  
  

Works

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  • March into the National Women's Conference

    1977

  • Three First Ladies and Bella

  • Bella Abzug at a New York City Rally

    1976

  • Bella Abzug at a New York Press Conference

    1972

  • Salvador Dali and Ultraviolet

  • Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

  • Late-night Planning Meeting

    1977

Connections

Father:

Carl Henry

Mother:

Edith (Entratter) Henry

Spouse:

Noel Oard Mapstead

(m. June 12, 1986)

Daughter:

Barbara Edith Plantagenet Henry

References

• DMH Photography Diana Mara Henry, leading photojournalist of the women's movement and Democratic Party Politics of the 1970's and 1980's presents dramatic and insightful images that are historic and inspiring today.
• Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators
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