Legendary Photo Historian and Artist Deborah Willis Wins $200,000 Award
Much of Willis's work has dealt with the history of Black photography, specifically as it relates to gender.
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Deborah Willis Wins $200,000 Crystal Bridges Prize, Ken Griffin Moves His Art Treasures, and More: Morning Links for December 16, 2022
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Samella Lewis, Artist and Historian Focused on Advancing Black Art, Awarded CAA’s Highest Honor
Other honorees include Deborah Willis, Maren Hassinger, Simone Leigh, and Nicole R. Fleetwood.
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Deborah Willis’s Writings and Exhibitions Have Shaped Scholarship on African-American Photography
Her first book, Black Photographers 1840 to 1940: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography, published in 1985, unearthed a century of overlooked artists and their pictures.
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Out Side In: In His Arresting Work, Lyle Ashton Harris Looks to the Recent Past for New Ways Forward
At a time when many artists are exploring issues of identity, he is a veteran.
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‘We Are Family’: Aperture Fetes Agnes and Catherine Gund, Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas, Catherine Opie at Fall Gala
Among the evening's festivities were a spoken word performance by Carrie Mae Weems.
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Deborah Willis at Shine Portrait Studio, Newark, New Jersey
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Elizabeth A. Eisenstein and Deborah Willis Added to Smithsonian Museum’s Board of Commissioners
They will serve a four-year term.
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‘The Arts Have Long Walked Us Toward Justice’: Sarah Lewis on Her Special Issue of Aperture, ‘Vision & Justice’
For the first time in its 64-year history, the photography magazine Aperture has tapped a guest editor to focus an entire issue exclusively on the way that photography has been integral to…
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