Deborah Willis, a photographer and recent MacArthur Fellow takes Sharon on a tour of Reflections in Black. Willis is curator of the exhibit, a comprehensive collection of images by Black photographers from 1840 to the present. The collection of 300 pictures is on view at the Smithsonian and a companion book of over 600 photographs was published this year. Willis has spent more than 20 years archiving and presenting the work of photographers throughout the African diaspora.(Reflections In Black, A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, Norton; 2000; ISBN: 0-393-04880-2)
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