Deborah Willis

Photographer and historian 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. Her art works have been exhibited at the Park Avenue Armory, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, The University of Arts, Monument Lab and the Philadelphia African American Museum and Common Cause in Chicago, Brooklyn College, Photoville, among others.