A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women
Hyperallergic, July 30, 2023
Jean Weisinger spent much of the 1990’s pointing her camera at women. Her subjects ranged from strangers in parking lots to some of the century’s most influential figures, including Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Assata Shakur. But almost none of Weisinger’s 250,000 photographs left her California home until 2021, when the director of a tiny Staten Island museum embarked on a two-and-a-half-year quest to put them in front of the public. My story about Weisinger’s memories and Director Victoria Munro’s careful documentation sparked a new round of foot traffic to the Alice Austen House Museum, one of NYC’s most underappreciated cultural gems.
Elaine Velie 