I am a photographer who documents areas of society that have not been recorded before. In the 1970s, I took environmental portraits of children from more than a hundred families in New York City from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
One of my significant contributions has been documenting the key trailblazers from the second wave of the women’s movement. In 1981, I published their portraits and their stories in their own words in my book “Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Times.”
I also documented the interiors of traditional houses in Turkey, which are a significant part of their cultural heritage. They were published in "The Silk Road: Then and Now."
Recently, I’ve documented the transformation of a private garden through the seasons.
My work has been widely exhibited and published, with portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, and New York Historical Society. It has also appeared on various media platforms more than 1,000 times, including Netflix, Nvidia, Intel, National Geographic, MoMA, the British Museum, and The Washington Post.
Grace Murray Hopper
This chapter was excerpted from Particular Passions:
Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Times.Grace Murray Hopper was a brilliant mathematician and computer scientist. She was also a gifted teacher, navy admiral and brilliant communicator. One of the first three modern “programmers,” Hopper is best known for her trailblazing contributions to the development of computer languages, juggling between academia and the navy.
Hopper came of age at a time of unusual opportunity for women witha relatively high number of women receiving doctorates. She is an alum of Yale like her father. Hopper divorced her husband and never remarried or had children.
Her success in male-dominated fields and organizations, including the U.S. Navy, is exceptional.
Louise Nevelson
This chapter was excerpted from
Particular Passions:
Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Times
Then also I think being an artist is a state of mind. There were a great many frustrations in my life, too. But the only thing I can say is that I was looking for harmony and I think my long suit was that I was able to remember things and externalize them. I wanted harmony within myself, so I externalized it in my work." ~Louise Nevelson
