![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Willis’s curated exhibitions include: “In Pursuit of Beauty” at Express Newark “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography and “Reframing Beauty: Intimate Moments” at Indiana University. ![]() Willis is the author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present and co-author of The Black Female Body A Photographic History Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (both titles a NAACP Image Award Winner). MacArthur Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation contemporary women photographers and beauty. Willis is the author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present Out o Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty Reflections in. ![]() She is the director of the NYU Institute of African American Affairs and the founder of the Center for Black Visual Culture. is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women and gender. ![]()
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