Ellen Shumsky
Photography
Photography
 France, 1969 |
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Ellen Shumsky studied photography in France in the 1960's. In 1969, as a photographer/ participant she began to pursue the self chosen mission of documenting the Gay and Lesbian Feminist Revolutions unfolding through the early 1970's.
Her photos appeared in underground newspapers both nationally and internationally including RAT and Come Out! as well as numerous counterculture anthologies of that time including, Jerry Rubin (1971) - "We Are Everywhere" and Liberation News Service (1971) - "Shots: Photographs from the Underground Press.
In 1972, she had a show "Women and Signs" at Djuna Books in Greenwich Village, and in 1973 her photos of Croatia were displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s "Festival of American Folklife" in Washington D.C. Her Gay Liberation photos were showcased at the 1994 New York Public Library Exhibition commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising "Becoming Visible: The of Legacy of Stonewall." In 1995, her photos were included in the David Deitcher anthology "The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall."
Her most recent exhibit, entitled "Portraits of Transformation: 1967 - 1973." is at the LBGT Center in New York City through the summer of 2009. A book of her photos, Portrait of a Decade: 1968 - 1978, a collection of 116 black and white prints was published in 2009.
For the past thirty years she has been a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst in New York City where she conducts a private practice and also teaches and writes about contemporary psychoanalytic theory.
