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Deborah Willis (born February 5, 1948) is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow . [2]
Deborah Willis is internationally recognised as a pioneer of Black historical research and a foundational figure in defining a Black photographic canon. D. Willis’s career has included both archival work preserving the images of past Black photographers and her own studio practice.
Mar 31, 2023 · Multidisciplinary artist-curator Deborah Willis unpacks her decades-long practice of unearthing the beauty of everyday life in Black portraiture.
It’s not an overstatement to call Deborah Willis the godmother of Black photography. As a scholar, archivist, author, curator, and artist, she has discovered, researched, and shared the work of thousands of black photographers from throughout the United States from the 1840s to the present.
Deborah Willis, Ph.D. (b. 1948), is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is also the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture.
Dec 16, 2022 · Deborah Willis, an artist and historian whose game-changing exhibitions and books have reshaped the study of photography, has won the Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art, an...
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5 days ago · As an artist, author, and curator, Deb Willis's art and pioneering research has focused on cultural histories envisioning the black body, women, and gender.
