Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
In this video, Deborah Willis, professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, delves into the work of Deana Lawson, the contributions of women artists to conversations around contemporary photography and representation, and her own recent curatorial projects. "Deana Lawson," which just closed at the High, was the first museum survey dedicated to Lawson and featured her work made over the past two decades.
Deborah Willis, PhD, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is also the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, contemporary women photographers, and beauty. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (2021) and "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present" (2009), among other publications. She has curated exhibitions including "Home: Reimagining Interiority" at YoungArts, Miami (2022), "Framing Moments: Photography" from the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts (2021), "Migrations and Meanings in Art" (2020), and "'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory" at FotoFocus 2022.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
In this video, Deborah Willis, professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, delves into the work of Deana Lawson, the contributions of women artists to conversations around contemporary photography and representation, and her own recent curatorial projects. "Deana Lawson," which just closed at the High, was the first museum survey dedicated to Lawson and featured her work made over the past two decades.
Deborah Willis, PhD, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is also the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, contemporary women photographers, and beauty. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (2021) and "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present" (2009), among other publications. She has curated exhibitions including "Home: Reimagining Interiority" at YoungArts, Miami (2022), "Framing Moments: Photography" from the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts (2021), "Migrations and Meanings in Art" (2020), and "'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory" at FotoFocus 2022.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
