| LC control no. | n 83133968 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Willis, Deborah, 1948- |
| Variant(s) | Willis-Thomas, Deborah, 1948- Thomas, Deborah Willis-, 1948- Willis-Ryan, Deborah, 1948- Ryan, Deborah Willis-, 1948- Willis-Braithwaite, Deborah, 1948- Braithwaite, Deborah Willis-, 1948- Willis-Kennedy, Deborah, 1948- Kennedy, Deborah Willis-, 1948- Willis, Deb, 1948- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1948-02-05 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Affiliation | Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.) Philadelphia College of Art Pratt Institute George Mason University Duke University New York University |
| Profession or occupation | Art historians Art teachers Photographers |
| Found in | Black photograph., 1840-1940, 1984: CIP title page (Deborah Willis-Thomas) acknowledgement (photo. special., Schomburg Cent. for Res. in Black Cult.) data sheet (b. 1948) Black photographers bear witness, 1989: CIP title page (Deborah Willis) data sheet (b. 1948) On freedom, 1986: page 3 (Deborah Willis-Ryan) VanDerZee, photographer, 1886-1983, 1993: title page (Deborah Willis-Braithwaite) The Harlem renaissance, 1986: CIP title page (Deborah Willis Ryan) Resonant forms, 1998: page 2 (Deborah Willis-Kennedy; curator of exhibitions, the Anacostia Museum and the Center for African American History and Culture) Seconds of my life, 2007: CIP title page (Deb Willis) E-mail from author, Mar. 12, 1999 (preferred form of name is Deborah Willis) African American National Biography, accessed September 22, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Willis, Deborah; art historian, art teacher, photographer; born 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; taught photography in Brooklyn at the Neighborhood Youth Corps photography program in Ocean Hill-Brownsville; BFA in Photography, Philadelphia College of Art (later the University of the Arts) (1975); master of fine arts in Photography, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (1980); worked at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (1980-1992); received MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the City College of New York (1986); museum specialist, Center for African American Research and Culture, Smithsonian Institution; earned PhD in Cultural Studies, George Mason University (2003); taught photographic history, Brooklyn Museum, New York University, and the City University of New York; appointed Lehman Brady Chair in Documentary Studies and American Studies, Duke University (2000); professor of photography and imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2001)) Wikipedia, October 29, 2021: (Deborah Willis; born February 5, 1948; artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author and educator. Co-produced the 2014 documentary film Through a lens darkly: black photographers and the emergence of a people) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 88219728 n 86099315 |
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