| Deborah Willis is curator of exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. She received her M.F.A in Art History/Museum Studies from the City University of New York, and her M.F.A in photography from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Willis' dual career as art photographer and historian of African American photography has included positions as exhibitions coordinator and curator of photography and prints at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture; and her current position. She has lectured extensively on African American photographers. Her own work has also been exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; Searching for Memories: Black Women and the 1895 Exposition at the Atlanta Arts Festival; and Eye of the Beholder: Photographers from the Avon Collection at the International Center for Photography in New York. Willis has been awarded several honors and fellowships including a MacArthur Fellowship (1999), the Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award in Education, and the International Center for Photography Infinity Award for writing on photography. She is currently at work on a book that explores photographic images of the Black female
body.
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