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Deb WillisHomePortfolioPHOTO EXHIBITIONS"I'M HERE WAITING FOR YOU"In Search of BeautyVILLA LA PIETRA - A Photography ExhibitionThe Black Portraitures Series BPI - BPIIIBLACK PORTRAITURES {I} PARIS, FRANCEBLACK PORTRAITURES {II} FLORENCE, ITALYBlack Portraitures {III} Johannesburg, South AfricaINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES THE WOMEN IN MIGRATION SERIESCuratorial ExhibitionsPosing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the PresentBeauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium1968 THEN & NOWMore Curatorial ExhibitionsPublicationsPressMore PortfolioNewsContactCVLinksDeb WillisHomePortfolioPHOTO EXHIBITIONS"I'M HERE WAITING FOR YOU"In Search of BeautyVILLA LA PIETRA - A Photography ExhibitionThe Black Portraitures Series BPI - BPIIIBLACK PORTRAITURES {I} PARIS, FRANCEBLACK PORTRAITURES {II} FLORENCE, ITALYBlack Portraitures {III} Johannesburg, South AfricaINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES THE WOMEN IN MIGRATION SERIESCuratorial ExhibitionsPosing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the PresentBeauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium1968 THEN & NOWMore Curatorial ExhibitionsPublicationsPressMore PortfolioNewsContactCVLinks© DEBORAH WILLISWebsite by OtherPeoplesPixelsDeborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas give a mother/son talk at the TED WOMEN 2017 talk in New OrleansAs an artist, author and curator Deb Willis's art and pioneering research has focused on cultural histories envisioning the black body, women and gender. She is a celebrated photographer, acclaimed historian of photography, MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, and University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (with Barbara Krauthamer) and in 2015 for the documentary Through a Lens Darkly, inspired by her book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture.Hank Willis Thomas's work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad including, the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. His work is in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, among others . © DEBORAH WILLISWebsite by OtherPeoplesPixels@media (min-aspect-ratio: 64/91) { .welcome-modal>.media { width: auto; height: 100vh; }}@media (max-aspect-ratio: 64/91) { .welcome-modal>.media { height: auto; width: 100vw; }}