Herz, Cary

International Women's Day Demonstration, photo by Cary Herz, n.d.

Photographer Cary Herz was born June 15, 1947 in New York City to Fred and Gertrud Herz. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1965, she earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. She worked as a freelance photographer in New York City from 1972-77, documenting the women's movement and women's sports for Ms. Magazine and other publications. From 1977-84, she was a staff photographer for the Newark Star-Ledger covering the New York City metropolitan area on news, features, sports, personalities, fashion, and commerical assignments. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1984 where she worked as a news editor and videographer for KOAT-TV. In 1987 she established her own business, Cary Herz Photography, doing freelance photojournalism, and editorial, corporate, and location photography. She also worked as a New Mexico photo correspondent for The New York Times beginning in 1985. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, PC World, People, Ms, Garden Design, and on the Discovery Channel. Her images have been published in many books including Stones of Remembrance: The Historic Jewish Cemetery in Las Vega s, New Mexico (1990); Street Gangs in America (1993); The Pilgrimage to Chimayo: Contemporary Portrait of a Living Tradition (1999); and her own book, New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory (2007). In the spring of 2001, her work was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Game Face: What Does a Woman Athlete Look Like. In 2007 Herz received the New Mexico Press Women 's Woman of Achievement Award. She died of ovarian cancer in 2008.