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The Libel exhibit: Vice-Den Artwork

Diana Mara Henry

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Mixed Media, Photography on Paper

Size: 9 W x 13 H x 0.1 D in

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The photograph was taken in Miami Beach at the time of the Democratic National Convention in 1972, when Diana Mara Henry fly from NYC and ended up as a photographer for Reliable Source and ad hoc newspaper published by Dick Tuck. In her peregrinations through the convention hotels, she ran into her old pal, the late photographer Julian Wolf Wasser, who obviously enjoyed displaying his latest conquest. The image is also available without the caption laid on it, but as is it was part of the Libel Exhibit, that premiered at the Pacific Grove Art Center in 1991, and was shown again in 2004 on the East Coast. Time to reprise! Or segue with a new one, as the original project included 99 images and words.From the artist's statement for the exhibit: “Libel” an exhibit in photographs and words, challenges our acceptance of the photographic image and its associated caption as truth. Taking a reflective and provocative detour from her “straight” newspaper reporting and photojournalism, Diana Mara Henry here invites viewers to envision alternate explanations of what we see and examine the preconceived notions we bring to seeing. “I heaped truth on some people’s heads and lies on others. In most cases, I don’t know whether truth or lies. I discovered it was easier to assign words stereotypically, but more amusing to find obviously fraudulent applications. I paid some attention to the placement of the word on the image. Visitors to the exhibit are offered labels to libel themselves with as well. The “red flag words” used were taken from “Synopsis of the Law of Libel and the Right of Privacy” by Bruce W. Sanford, Baker and Hostetler, publishers. Diana Mara Henry’s Libel project, comprising 99 photographs (twenty-seven of which are in the exhibit), was first created for Gustave Harrow’s course, “Art and the Law” at New York University’s School of Arts Administration.

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9 W x 13 H x 0.1 D in

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"Your photos are beautiful and represent such a powerful and passionate time in American History. I believe these photos will last and many years from now they will be looked at and studied just as Matthew Brady's classic and haunting Civil War photos are today..."- Ron Kovic tribute for Diana Mara Henry. Diana Mara Henry began her career as a photo editor and reporter for the Harvard Crimson, 1967-1969. After college she was a researcher for NBC news and a General Assignment Reporter for the Staten Island Advance. Going freelance in 1971, she photographed George McGovern -from the New Hampshire primaries to the National Democratic Convention, Bella Abzug and Elizabeth Holtzman. The most-published photographs of her career came as official photographer for the National Commission on International Women's Year to document the First National Women's Conference in Houston, TX, 1977. Other extended reports 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 (shown at the Brattleboro Museum in 1984) and One-Room Schools of Ulster County, NY, and the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp, Alsace, France. Grants from the NY State Council on the Arts, the NY Foundation for the Arts, and the Ms Foundation for Women have supported her projects. She is a resident of Newport, VT and has found there her Shangri-la.

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