Category Archives: Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis releases new book, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs

September 18, 2008 – 1:50 PM
Deborah Willis has organized and curated a new book entitled Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.  Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to... Read More »
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Ford, Ingram, and Thomas featured in 1968: Then and Now

August 29, 2008 – 3:45 PM
Deborah Willis' timely new survey, 1968: Then and Now, opens September 2 in a joint exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and New York University.1968: Then and Now explores an era when a multitude of social movements climaxed in discontent... Read More »
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Four Women opens July 18 at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta

July 14, 2008 – 4:00 PM
In February of 1995, the J. Paul Getty Museum premiered a new body of work, Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness, in conjunction with another exhibition of daguerreotypes, tintypes, and photographs of African-Americans made before, during, and after the... Read More »
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The lyrical and the profane

November 29, 2007 – 7:19 PM
From the intimacy of adolescence and the vulnerability of youth to the disquiet implicit in the formal elegance of unassembled aircraft models, the photographic image has long served as agency for the lyrical and the profane.In May Days Long Forgotten,... Read More »
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Engulfed by Katrina: Photographs Before and After the Storm

June 16, 2006 – 7:44 PM
On August 29, 2005, "Katrina," one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes in recorded history, made landfall in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. In less than 24 hours, the storm caused widespread and irreparable damage along... Read More »
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Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis featured in Family Matters

June 9, 2005 – 12:34 PM
The work of Hank Willis Thomas, alongside that of his mother, Deborah Willis, is being exhibited in Family Matters at The Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina. The intersecting themes in their work provide a visual commentary on African American... Read More »
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Carrie Mae Weems and Deborah Willis to speak at The Museum of Modern Art

April 14, 2005 – 8:09 AM
Internationally acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems and noted historian, artist, and MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis will be featured in a new lecture series presented by The Museum of Modern Art.  Conversations Among Friends is the first in a series of... Read More »
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