I am writing this review from viewpoint of having been hired by Bella Abzug to be the conference's official photographer. I was there on stage, behind the scenes, in the late-night hotel room planning sessions, exhibit hall, lecture series- even at Phyllis Schlafly's press conference on the occasion...
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I am writing this review from viewpoint of having been hired by Bella Abzug to be the conference's official photographer. I was there on stage, behind the scenes, in the late-night hotel room planning sessions, exhibit hall, lecture series- even at Phyllis Schlafly's press conference on the occasion of her counter-conference. And in March 1978 I photographed the delivery of this official report to the President, the Congress and the People of the United States to President Carter at the White House and to Tip O'Neill in Congress. I use the book all the time for its publication of the historic speeches by first ladies, congresswomen, and cultural heroines, the planks - both majority and minority - of the National Plan of Action, the delegates and alternates listed by state and all the details about the 2,600-mile torch relay from Seneca Falls, site of the women's suffrage convention of 1848 organized by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to Houston The book contains 85 of my copyrighted photographs: I was hired as an independent contractor and the copyright which I registered at the US Copyright Office and including in all preliminary assignment correspondence with the Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and billing to the State Department is noted both on the Copyright page, and in addition in the second printing (not the first) on the second page of the table of contents, by page number. The book has been put on line several times and been taken down due to copyright infringement concerns-recently two publishers in India have been selling pirated versions online.Any and all other editions to date containing my official photographs, are pirated and produced illegally. Hopefully it will be republished soon with due copyright credit and legal rights for the photographs which have become iconic: the women for the ERA waving their bras, the three First Ladies Carter, Ford, and Johnson, with Bella Abzug, holding up the torch, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, the three Houston athletes Michelle Cearcy, Peggy Kokernot and Sylvia Ortiz with the flag, Billie Jean King and Betty Friedan flanking the vangard of the march into the Albert Thomas Convention hall, Gloria Steinem holding baby ERA in the East Room, Jean Stapleton's press conference, and almost a hundred more. The 50th anniversary is coming up and interest grows each year in this first and only government-sponsored conference by, for and about women.
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