Monday, October 5, 2009

Deborah Willis "Posing Beauty in African American Culture" (10/10)


This Saturday (Oct 10th 4pm) over at the Robert & Tilton Gallery in Culver City will be hosting Deborah Willis' conversation and book signing of her new book which just goes on sale today (10/5) called "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present"

Dr. Deborah Willis is the chair and a professor of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts in New York, a 2005 Guggenheim and Fletcher Fellow and one of the country's leading historians of African American photography. In her latest book, she talks of African American images in media from photography, film, video, fashion advertising, music and internet in the past century.



Stephen Shames – At Home, Huey P. Newton Listens to Bob Dylan



Jamel Shabazz – Rude Boy



John Mosely – Atlantic City, Four Women


As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies’ journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two hundred arresting images, many previously unpublished, Posing Beauty recovers a world many never knew existed. Historical subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker illuminate the past; Angela Davis and Muhammad Ali take us to the civil rights era; Denzel Washington, Lil’ Kim, and Michelle Obama celebrate the present. Featuring the works of more than one hundred photographers, including Carl van Vechten, Eve Arnold, Lee Friedlander, and Carrie Mae Weems, Willis’s book not only celebrates the lives of the famous but also captures the barber shop,

More info

Saturday Oct 10, 2009 4 pm

ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

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