Hello,
Our
Cover montage is a reflection of our exciting year 2000.
By clicking on an individual image, it will take you to galleries and/or
stories we presented through out the year.
We are
proud to announce the acquisition of the card catalog of Women Photographers,
Books, Periodicals and Exhibition catalogues, a photographic archive
which has been amassed over a period of 27 years by Founder and Curator,
Peter Palmquist. This comprehensive research tool can be accessed through
our online Reference
Library and will be extremely valuable to Scholars and
Collectors the world over who will find this collection to be one of
the most important contributions to the history of women in photography.
The card catalog is part of the over 27,000 biographical files on Women
Photographers that Historian Peter Palmquist houses in Arcata, CA.
We welcome
our new Board Secretary, Lillian Wilson. Lillian is an accomplished
photographer and professional photography representative for Eastman
Kodak Company.
New to
our Advisory Board is Jane Slate Siena, Head of Institutional
Relations at the Getty Conservation Institute, and President of the
St. Petersburg International Center for Preservation, Russia and
Jill Waterman, photographer/writer and Senior Photo Editor at FPG
International, and Picture Editor/Contributing Writer for the Fotophile
photographic journal. In this issue you will find an article by Jill
about the L.E.S.Girls Club/NY in the WIPI News Section.
Our
Galleries showcase Chicago Tribune photographer, Stephanie
Sinclair as the featured photographer in Gallery #1. Winifred
Meiser, Member gallery and the Historical profile on Mary Eleanor
Browning, who in 1951 made history by photographing her own surgery.
In the Gallery Highlights
section you will find images from the Tipper Gores exhibit of "The Way
Home, Ending Homelessness in America." WIPI Member highlights include,
Lillian Wilson, Patricia D. Richards, Jill Waterman, and Cindy Pichard.
New this
fall, is the exciting book
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reviewed by Historian, Carol Clauber. Carol's insightful review
is illustrated with images by NG staff photographer, Jodi Cobb. Also
included in the review are images by Maria Stenzel and Karen Kasmauski
and book cover by Joanna B. Pimeno.
Please
take a moment to read the wonderful story by Russian Photographer/Writer
Julia Sorokina, in the WIPI
News section of the
f2 eZine. A special thank you to Nancy Clendaniel, our
past Editor, for bringing Julia to our attention after a recent photo
trip to Russia. Speaking of trips, check out the cutting edge art weekend
at Black Rock Desert with images by Anthropologist/Photographer Leanna
Wolfe who photographed the "Burning Man" exhibit.
We have
received an excellent response to the
"2000 Women in Photography" Call for Entries.
We've changed the focus from "just photographers" to include ALL women
working in the photographic arts, including curators, publishers, writers
and others, whose contribution to photography has made a difference.
So nominate yourself and/or your favorite editor, curator, publisher
or working representative today, the deadline is December 31, 2000.
In answer
to our Membership Survey request, we have compiled an interesting links
list for Competition
and Employment opportunities.
We have also expanded our International Photography Links section, a
great asset to anyone's favorites list. The Flags icon link will
open a page that allows you to translate our site into any one of 6
different languages. So remember, when you are looking for a contact
related to photography anywhere on the globe, stop by our links section
to achieve your goal.
We welcome
your contribution. If you have articles or links you would like us to
consider, please send them along and remember to add our link to your
site. Our vision and your voice combine to create the Premiere On-line
Resource for Women in the Photographic Arts .....we're clicking.!
Jean
Ferro
A special
note of Thanks to Amie
Vanderford-Pfaff, our "Webmaster"... you're
the best..!
