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Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is an art photographer and historian of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Her books include (with Carla Williams) The Black Female Body: a photographic history (Temple University Press, 2002) and (with David Levering Lewis) A Small Nation of People: WEB Du Bois and African American portraits of progress (Amistad Press, 2003). She teaches photography and imaging at New York University.

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Black: theatres of African American memory

The many streams of one great river, African American experience, are retrieved and reimagined in the work of the historian and photographer Deborah Willis.

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