Deborah Willis

Photographer and historian Dr. Deborah Willis is Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author/co-author of several books including Reflections in Black: A Reframing; Photography & the Black Arts Movement; Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House; The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, among others. Professor Willis’s curated exhibitions include: “Reflections in Black: A Reframing”, “Migrations and Meanings in Art”, “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography; Out of Fashion Photography; Framing Beauty at the Henry Art Gallery and “Reframing Beauty: Intimate Moments” at Indiana University.

Photo credit: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn of DW