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§ 4: Women In Photography International (WIPI)
In the eighties, characterized by the awareness of their own value as
women, some photographers of Los Angeles decided to give visibility
in the world of photography. Thus was born, in 1981, Women in Photography
International (WIPI), thanks to Thea Litsios, Orah Moore, Carrie Mae
Weems, Margaret Grundstein, Mary McNally, Debra Denker, Bonnie Flamer,
Janet Schipper, Deborah Roundtree and Linda Wolf. The purpose of WIPI,
a non-profit organization, considered this an educational facility,
is to exploit the women working in the field of photography. Currently,
given that in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 the allocations
for non-profits have declined, its survival depends exclusively on the
shares of the members and those for online photographic competitions
in addition to donations by manufacturers of photographic material.
Most of the members are from the US, but also counts photographers from
other countries and continents. Since 1983, WIPI constituted the Distinguished
Photographer's Award, for recognition of the photographers who have
made important contributions to the world of photography. Past editions
have awarded the prize to Eve Arnold, Ruth Bernhard, Judy Dater, Marion
Post Wolcott, Linda McCartney, Mary Ellen Mark, Ruth Orkin, Joyce Tenneson,
Berenice Abbott, Grace Robertson, Carrie Mae Weems, Annie Leibovitz,
and Sylvia Plachy - in both the last two cases in collaboration with
the prestigious Lucie Awards (7 *), while from 2006 to 2008 it was made
a selection of one hundred DISTINGUISHED PHOTOGRAPHERS to pay tribute
to as many photographers from around the world and at different stages
of their careers that "with their dedication, their artistic skills
and their work have influenced our lives," as stated in the presentation.
Since 2000, the President is the photographer-artist Jean Ferro, as
she likes to say, has "WIPI ferried into the 21st century through
the International Speedway of the web". The site was born as an
additional tool for the dissemination of the work of the photographers
internationally, has rapidly become a valuable resource not only for
us but also for associated researchers and students from around the
world. Has in fact more than three thousand pages, since maintains online
archive of everything that appeared from 1999 onwards. It is the portfolio,
the Galleries and the links associated to their personal sites. To promote
the activities of members, it offers other useful tools: in fact there
is a section HIRE-A-PRO called WIPI WIPI which provides links to find
the appropriate professional to a request for photographic works. There
is also section SPOTLIGHT, a kind of dashboard that highlights the associates
who have their own PhotoProfile, short biographies with meaningful pictures
that summarize their work, linked to their site, as well as a section
devoted to exhibitions organized by WIPI 1985 on. WIPI has organized
regular online exhibitions and competitions, open to all photographers
who want to be known and to enrich with their images photographic culture.
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Among the
exhibitions stands Tea Time International: images of women images of
tea, organized in 2001 for the 25th anniversary and exposed to the House
of Photographic Art in San Juan Capistrano, a refined Californian Gallery
and Photo L.A. 2002, the world famous International Exhibition of Photography
in Los Angeles. www.womeninphotography.org) also hosts an online reference
library with notations of more than twenty-four thousand photographers,
created by historian Peter Palmquist, a member of the WIPI Advisory
Committee, which gave a huge help, helping to ensure that WIPI became
a fundamental point of reference for women photographers. Since 2003
the archive edited by Peter Palmquist, who died prematurely (Peter Palmquist
Western Americana Permanent Collection), is located at Yale University,
in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and contains both the
first evidence of the association that images relating to great exhibition
of 2001 Tea Time. In recent years WIPI has seen its constant presence
at Photo LA while Silvershotz, the exclusive magazine photography, has
dedicated entirely to WIPI the number 8, represented by eleven photographers
association.
From 2010 WIPI, whose members until then were divided into CHARTER (professional
photographers considered a benchmark in the field of photography and
operated in WIPI), PROfessional, (professional with more than two years
of experience) General (members who use photography as a means of expression
and / or professionals for less than two years) and Student, decided
to focus their energy to enhance the work of their members, giving the
opportunity to those who had distinguished itself over the years to
become charter Member and this qualitative leap gave important results.
In fact in 2014 the University of Yale, who already kept our images
in Peter Palmquist Western Americana Permanent Collection, has put online
the archive of us (This will be online later this spring 2017),until
that time it’s still on the main WIPI website - They are working
to handle the website and bring the info into their online system) among
those Charter Members of the Beinecke Library and has acquired all the
association's paperwork to put it in network: is a great recognition
that this important institution wants to preserve and pass on to future
generations our efforts. In addition the profiles of us Charter Member
were collected in a volume short-run and post, as well as the Beinecke
Library, also to National Women's History Museum; Smithsonian Museum
Library; International Center of Photography; Center of Creative Photography
- University of Arizona; Getty Center Museum Library; The Arthur and
Elizabeth Schlessinger Library - History of Women in America of Harvard
University. you can view the images and detailed profiles of us Charter
Members that we are part of the WIPI ARCHIVE YALE / Beinecke LIBRARY
also in the WIPI site. These relate to: Amie Vanderford, Angel Burns,
Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, Belinda Jentz, Betty Press, Bev Pettit, Bonnie
Flamer, Brenda Maltese, Candace Biggerstaff, Carol Henry, Carolyn C.
Meltzer, Cat Jimenez, Catherine Bauknight, Catherine Ellen Money, Cathy
Greenblat, Cordula Ohman, Darcie Goldberg, Dawn Hope Stevens, Diane
Roter, Diane Silverman, Dianne Poinski, EF Kitchen, Elizabeth Siegfried,
Freyda Miller, Hilary Neroni, Ivy Bigbee, JJ L'Heureux, J. Madison Rink,
Jane Fulton Alt, Jane Gottlieb, Jane Olin, Jane Stevens, Jean Ferro,
Jill Connelly, Joan Dooley, Joanne Bartone, Julia Dean, Julia McLemore,
June H. Lee, Kathleen T. Carr, Kathleen Taylor, Kathryn Jacobi, Kathy
Corday, Leslie Ebert, Lilyan Aloma, Lisa Blair, Margaret Waage, Margo
Taussig
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Pinkerton,
Maria Daniel Balcazar, Mariana Bartolomeo, Martina Gates, Meg Madison,
Melanie Temmer, Merrie Asimow, Monica Kane Stewart, Nancy Clendaniel,
Patricia D. Richards, Patrizia Pulga, Patty Tuggle, Renee Jacobs, Rosemary
Delucco Alpert, Sally Kim-Miller, Sara Terry, Sharyn Keller, Sherrie
Berger, Tiffany Trenda, Trish Simonite, Wendy Schneider, Wilda Squires
Gerideau and Winifred Meiser, all Americans, except me. Of some of them
and others who have been part of the association I will discuss in the
chapter on women photographers in North America.
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Additional
notations, Women in Photography International pg 96
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8 (ITALY) page 146
PATRIZIA PULGA (AUTHOR)
Born in Bologna in 1950, graduated in Political Science in 1979 she
started the profession taking pictures during the manifestations of
the feminist movement. In the same year she opened a studio with a colleague
where, until 2006 she has been working as a commercial photographer
continuing projects about women's condition with the series The World
through the eyes of women and No More, about violence against women
and about the urban changes in European and American cities with the
project Metropolitan Fragments. Alongside, she is a photography teacher
in workshops and courses in colleges and universities including: Orvieto
photography; Bologna University - School of Journalism; University of
Ferrara - Sociology of Art Course; Region Emilia Romagna - Department
for Equal Opportunities; Women's House and Center of Documentation and
Research of Women of the Municipality of Bologna and Advertising and
Design Salesian Institute of Bologna. Among the educational projects:
Notes against racism for the kindergarten pupils and teachers, drawn
up with the writer Elena Gianini Belotti and journalist Maria de Lourdes
Jesus; Identity and immigration - a story in pictures: photo workshop
for foreign women in Emilia Romagna in collaboration with the associations
ARMONIE and ENFAP and Women Photographers' Net: census about european
women photographers for Bologna 2000 Città Europea della Cultura,
while as a Charter Member of Women in Photography International (WIPI)
she writes articles about Asian and African photographers for the association's
website. She has exhibited her works in many venues including the Museum
of Modern Art of Monaco of Bavaria; Museum of Modern Art of Zagreb;
Museum of Modern Art of Vilnius; Italian Academy in London, World Trade
Center in Barcelona, Uffizi Gallery in Florence; S.I.C.O.F in Milan,
Archiginnasio Library, Town Hall, Palazzo d'Accursio, Palace of the
Notaries, and House of Photography in Bologna and in collective exhibits
with WIPI in House of Contemporary Art in San Juan Capistrano, California,
Photo L.A. in Los Angeles in 2002, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Her pictures
are part of private and public collections including those of the Centro
e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) at Parma University, Italy; Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library and YALE / WIPI online Archive both
at Yale University (USA). (revised 3/3017)
CHAPTER 10 (NORTH AMERICA) page 294; 295
JEAN FERRO (PHOTOA RTITST/ PREISENT WIPI)
President of Women In Photography International (WIPI) since 2000, where
she supported the careers of hundreds of women photographers through
curating exhibitions and overseeing the launch and direction of WIPI’s
outreach into the 21st Century. Ferro started taking pictures in the
seventies of musicians and personalities; self-taught and a fine art
photo model in Hollywood, she began self-portraits (auto-portraits)
to learn photography and worked as a model for top photographers such
as Helmut Newton and Antonin Kratochvil. Her self-portrait work was
featured in ZOOM Magazine in five countries as well as well as other
national and international publications including a special slide presentation
in 1992, Il Giornale di Sicilia. In addition to portraits, photos of
those years relate to the show business personalities who performed
or lived in Hollywood: from Arianna Huffington, Sophia Loren, David
Bowie to Ringo Starr, to name a few. In 1996 the project Global Liberty
- a series of photos of the Statue of Liberty prints were collaged onto
newspapers of forty-two countries. The 42 works of art were exhibited
at Los Angeles City Hall and marked the passage, after more than fifteen
years of traditional photography, to mixed media art photography. Also
in (1992-93), an award/grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department helped Ferro produce Through Our Own Eyes, Self Portraits
by People Without Homes, a project of social footprint by photos and
video format on the community of the homeless that Jean had given disposable
cameras that document the city from their point of view and compiled
them into a 30min video/documentary. Recent work Crystal Slippers (2013-14),
featured in Silvershotz international magazine were beautifully photographed
glass slippers, with reference to the Wizard of Oz: the crystal is a
symbol of the fragility and magical properties and shoes play a highly
symbolic role in women’s wear; so the artist likes to make them
different, changing the background on which they rest and playing with
a thousand reflections that produce when the light hits them. Since
2002, The ducks-in-a-row series continues to be an inspirational series
and growing body of work. Jean, is a contributing writer to The Photograph
Collector covering art based international fairs in Los Angeles and
is also an Advisory Board of the Lucie Foundation. She has exhibited
her pictures in important galleries, museums and festivals including
Paris Photo, the Nikon House in New York, the Konica Plaza in Tokyo,
the Bridge Gallery - Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery and numerous editions of Photo LA. Among are the principals
of business photos Paramount Studios, the Southern California Regional
Rail Authority and Capitol Records. Her images have appeared on TV network
magazine shows, ABC, CBS and in many photographic magazines including
Zoom, French Photo, Petersen’s Photographic and Los Angeles Magazine;
are part of private and public collections including those of the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Yale / WIPI online Archive both
at Yale University (U.S.A.). (revised 3/3017)
Member Biographic information included:
Betty Press pg 267, Bonnie Flamer pg 268, Carol Henry pg 270, Cat Jimenez
pg 272, Catherine Bauknight pg 272, Elizabeth Siegfried pg 283, Freyda
Miller pg 288, Ivy Bigbee pg 292, Jane Fulton Alt pg 293, Jane Gottlieb
pgs 293-294, Jean Ferro pgs 294-295, Jill Connelly pg 297, Julia Dean
302, Kathleen T. Carr pg 305, Maria Daniel Balcazar pg 320, Nancy Clendaniel
pg 330, Patricia D. Richards pg 334, Patrizia Pulga 146, Renee Jacobs,
pg 338, Thea Litsios pg 351, Sara Terry pg 342, Trish Simonite pg 352,
Wendy Schneider pg 353-354,
WIPI DISTINGUISHED PHOTOGRAPHER'S AWARD:
Biographies:
Annie Leibovitz pg 262-263
Berenice Abbott pg 47
Carrie Mae Weems, pg 271-272
Editta Sherman pg 71
Eve Arnold pg 74
Grace Robertson pg 193
Joyce Tenneson pg 302
Judy Dater pg 301-302
Linda Mc Cartney pg 312
Marion Post Wolcott, pg 82
Mary Ellen Mark pg 325
Ruth Bernhard pg 83-84
Ruth Orkin pg 84
Sylvia Plachy pg 349
Le donne fotografe dalla nascita della fotografia ad oggi: uno
sguardo di genere / Women photographers from the beginning of photography
up to now: a gender insight
© 2017 Edizioni Pendragon / Bologna available here:
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Patrizia Pulga CHARTER Gallery | Beinecke Library/Yale University Women
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