
UNVEILED: Joyce Tenneson and the Heroine's Journey | Preview
Preview: Season 8 Episode 17 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A female photographer struggles to navigate diverging roles as good mother and acclaimed artist.
As a groundbreaking female photographer pursues her artistic vision, she struggles to navigate diverging roles as mother and artist. UNVEILED explores Tenneson’s life as she fights to express her voice while suffering the fallout of a 45-year-old secret. In watching the film, audiences must contemplate the compromises that are inevitably made in seeking to live a full creative life.
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UNVEILED: Joyce Tenneson and the Heroine's Journey | Preview
Preview: Season 8 Episode 17 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
As a groundbreaking female photographer pursues her artistic vision, she struggles to navigate diverging roles as mother and artist. UNVEILED explores Tenneson’s life as she fights to express her voice while suffering the fallout of a 45-year-old secret. In watching the film, audiences must contemplate the compromises that are inevitably made in seeking to live a full creative life.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(suspenseful music) TINA MCDUFFIE: Joyce Tenneson, artist, mother, trailblazer.
JOYCE: When I photography somebody, I want to know them connect with their secrets.
- Her work is feminine.
It's celebrating women.
JOYCE: I had to be fierce.
You don't survive in New York unless you're fierce, so I was fierce, TINA: "Unveiled: Joyce Tenneson and the Heroine's Journey" on Local, USA.
UNVEILED: Joyce Tenneson and the Heroine's Journey | Trailer
Video has Closed Captions
A female photographer struggles to navigate diverging roles as good mother and acclaimed artist. (1m 4s)
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipFunding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Wyncote Foundation.