The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Deborah Willis

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Deborah Willis

6/27/2007

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.190

Photographer, curator, and photography professor Deborah Willis (1948 - ) was a former exhibitions curator at the Smithsonian’s Center for African American History and Culture as well as the recipient of the 2000 MacArthur Fellowship. Willis was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/27/2007, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 45m 15s

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Willis, Deborah, 1948-

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Curator, photographer and photographer professor Deborah Willis was born on February 5, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Ruth and Thomas Willis. The family traditions of photography and quilting would later inspire her career and artistic point of view. Even as a child, she noticed the scarcity of images of blacks in the media. She received her B.A. degree at Temple University in 1972, her B.F.A. degree at the Philadelphia College of Art in 1975, and her M.F.A. degree from Brooklyn's Pratt ...