Herz, Cary

Photographer.

Cary Herz was born and raised in New York City and has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since the 1980s. She has been a photographer since the early 1970s when she began documenting the women's movement and women's sports in New York City for Ms. Magazine as well as other publications. She worked for eight years as a staff photographer for the Newark Star-Ledger. She is now an award-winning professional photographer specializing in corporate and editorial photography. She's been a photo correspondent for The New York Times since 1985 and has contributed photos to Time, Newsweek, PC World, People, Ms, Garden Design, and the Discovery Channel. Herz's images have been published in many books including Stones of Remembrance: The Historic Jewish Cemetery in Las Vegas, 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. Since 1987, she has run her own business, Cary Herz Photography. In 2007 Herz received the New Mexico Press Women's Woman of Achievement Award.

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