Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS:

Birt, Rodger C. and Deborah Willis-Braithwaite
VANDERZEE Photographer 1886-1983
New York: Abrams in assoc. with The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1993
192 pp., 187 beautifully printed duotone illus., bibliog. Biog. essay by Rodger C. Birt. The selection of photographic subjects includes: Bill Cosby, Eubie Blake, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marcus Garvey, The New York Black Yankees, Madame C. J. Walker's Beauty Salon, Florence Mills, innumerable Harlem residents and many other images. A major reference work on the most important photographer of the Harlem Renaissance and New York art, literary and dance scene. [Freitag 12845] 4to (30 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed. ISBN: 0810939231

DAYTONA BEACH (FL). Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach Community College
Midway: Portrait of a Daytona Beach Neighborhood: Photographs by GORDON PARKS
Daytona Beach: February 5-May 5, 1999
98 pp., 41 b&w illus. (most full-page), bibliog. Intro. Alison Nordstrom; substantial text on Parks by Deborah Willis, Leonard Lempel, exhib. checklist with commentary on the images by the town's residents. Parks went to Florida to photograph Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the renowned African American educator and activist. What resulted was a series of photographs taken in 1943 both of the privileged students on the Bethune-Cookman college campus and of the poorer residents of the town itself. Sq. 8vo (22 cm.), card wraps., photo tipped to front cover. First ed. ISBN: 1887040269.

Ferris, Alison
DEBORAH WILLIS: Fabricated Histories
1999
In Fiberarts, Mar/Apr 1999: 52-56.

Harford (CT). CRT's Craftery Gallery
BENNY ANDREWS: Master Artist
1987
Exhibition brochure. Text by Deborah Willis.

Harford (CT). CRT's Craftery Gallery
MEG ANDREWS, Photographer
1989
Exhibition brochure. Text by Deborah Willis.

Kansas City (MO). Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
DEBORAH WILLIS: Tied to Memory
May 5-July 16, 2000
Solo exhibition of photographic mages printed on photo-sensitive linen sewn into quilts. The works represent private moments in her life and the lives of close family members

Miami (FL). Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
DEBORAH WILLIS: The Places in Which we Pray are Made Sacred by our Presence
January- February, 2005
Solo exhibition. Color photographs of interiors used for worship.

New York (NY). Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
DEBORAH WILLIS: The Places in Which We Pray Are Made Sacred by Our Presence (Project Room)
January 22-February 19, 2005
Solo exhibition.

New York (NY). Gallery 62, National Urban League
JOHN PINDERHUGHES: Photographer
1984
Exhibition catalogue. Text by Deborah Willis.

New York (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
HANSEN's Harlem
1989
Exhib. catalogue, 7 b&w illus., notes. Texts by Deborah Willis and Rodger C. Birt. A retrospective of one of Harlem's oldest studio photographers. Note: Opening reception invitation has additional image not in the catalogue. 8vo, stapled wraps.

New York (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem
Harlem Heyday: The Photography of JAMES VANDERZEE Portraits of the Harlem Community during the 1920s and 1930s
June 20-September 1, 1982
22 pp., 12 b&w illus. (including 1 double-page). Intro. Mary Schmidt Campbell, C. Daniel Dawson. Text by Deborah Willis-Thomas. Sq. 8vo, wraps. First ed.

New York (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem
Introspect: The Photographs of ANTHONY BARBOZA
1982
32 pp., 17 b&w illus. plus color coverplate, chronol., bibliog. Texts by C. Daniel Dawson, Deborah Willis-Thomas, and texts and poem by artist. Oblong 8vo (22 cm.), pictorial stapled wraps. First ed.

Philadelphia (PA). Afro American Historical and Cultural Museum
JACK T. FRANKLIN: Highlighting the Philadelphia Presence In the Civil Rights Movement
1992
Exhibition brochure. Text by Deborah Willis.

Tucson (AZ). Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Encounters 6: DEBORAH WILLIS: African American Extended Family
September 18-November 6, 1994
Gatefold card, 4 color plates, biog. exhibs. Statements by Willis about her work and text by Trudy Wilner Stack. Sq. 8vo, card.

Van Haaften, Julia and Deborah Willis-Ryan
MONETA SLEET, Jr.: Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist
1987
12 pp., 7 illus. Catalogue for a traveling exhibition of Sleet's photographs. Text by Deborah Willis. 8vo, self-wraps. First ed.

WEEMS, CARRIE MAE, DEBORAH WILLIS, et al
The Hampton Project: One Hundred Years of Difference
Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art and Aperture, 2000
108 pp., 29 color plates, 25 b&w illus., 1 gate-fold. This exhibition brings together photographs from Frances B. Johnston's historic Hampton Album a photographic portrayal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, founded in 1868 in Virginia for the education of "selected Negro youths" and displaced Native Americans with a new series of photographic banners by Carrie Mae Weems created in direct response to Johnston's images and to life at Hampton University today. Includes Weems' recent fabric works Ritual & Revolution and The Jefferson Suites. Interview with Weems, essays by Deborah Willis-Kennedy, Jeanne Zeidler, Constance W. Glenn, and Frederick Rudolph. 4to (32 cm.), pictorial papered boards., printed translucent d.j. First ed. ISBN: 0893819131

WINSTON-SALEM (NC). Southeast Center for Contemporary Art
Personal Narratives: Women Photographers of Color
1993
7 illus., exhib. checklist of 30 works. Curated by Jeff Fleming. Text by Fatima Tobing Rony. Includes: Lorraine O'Grady, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Clarissa T. Sligh, Carrie Mae Weems, Pat Ward Williams, Deborah Willis. 4to, wraps. First ed.

WINSTON-SALEM (NC). Southeast Center for Contemporary Art
Personal Narratives: Women Photographers of Color
1993
7 illus., exhib. checklist of 30 works. Curated by Jeff Fleming. Text by Fatima Tobing Rony. Includes: Lorraine O'Grady, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Clarissa T. Sligh, Carrie Mae Weems, Pat Ward Williams, Deborah Willis. 4to, wraps. First ed.

GENERAL BOOKS AND EXHIBITIONS:

ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta Gallery of Photography
Photobiographers
1992
Exhibition curated by Deborah Willis.

BAR HARBOR (ME). College of the Atlantic
Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is not a Class Privilege in America

A collection of 60 photographs. Curated by Rickie Solanger. Black aritsts include: Eli Reed, Deb Willis, Roland Freeman, Clarissa Sligh, and Lauri Lyons.

BLOCKSON, CHARLES, ed
Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, a Unit of the Temple University Libraries
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990
List of art holdings pp. 35-43. Artists mentioned include: John L. Moore, Allan Crite, David Driskell, John Biggers, Archibald Motley, Henry O. Tanner, Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Carroll Simms, Samella Lewis, Ruth Waddy, Tom Feelings, Oliver (Ollie) Harrington, Clarence C. Bullock, E. Simms Campbell, Joshua Johnston, Faith Ringgold, Jacqueline Fonvielle Bontemps, Deborah Willis (Ryan), Horace Pippin, Charles White, Jacob Lawrence, Jesse Aaron, Martin Puryear, James A. Porter, Malvin Gray Johnson, Richmond Barthé, Sargent Johnson, William A. Cooper, Lois Mailou Jones, Robert Duncanson, Elton Fax, Thomas Sills, Augusta Savage, Ida Ella Jones.

BOSTON (MA). Photographic Resource Center
Convergence: 8 Photographers
1989
32 pp., 16 illus., checklist, biogs. Texts by Deborah Willis and Edmund Barry Gaither. Contemporary photographic imagery by young African-American artists. Includes: Coreen Simpson, Clarissa Sligh, Elisabeth Sunday, Albert Chong, Todd Gray, Jeffrey Scales, Christian Walker, Wendel White. Small 4to, stapled wraps.

BRUNSWICK (ME). Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Memorable Histories and Historic Memories
September 25-December 6, 1998
64 pp., b&w and color illus., bibliog. Curated by Alison Ferris; text by Johanna Drucker. Exhibition of seven women artists including: Deborah Willis and Adrian Piper. 4to (22 x 29 cm.), wraps. First ed.

BYRD, MORA and M. FRANKLIN SIRMANS, Eds.
Transforming the Crown: African, Caribbean, and Asian Artists in Britain
New York: The Caribbean Cultural Center, 1997
160 pp., Texts by Anne Walmsley, Kobena Mercer, Gilane Tawadros, Deborah Willis (Talking Black: Black Women's Visual Liberation Through Photography), et al. chronol. by Krista A. Thompson. ISBN: 0965408205

CAMPBELL, MARY SCHMIDT
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America
New York: The Studio Museum and Abrams, N.Y., 1994
200 pp., 140 illus., 55 in color, 29 artists mentioned along with an overall focus on music, dance, literature, and general culture, chronols., bibliog., good reference bibliography, books and magazines illustrated by Aaron Douglas, index. Texts by David Levering Lewis, David C. Driskell, Deborah Willis Ryan, J. Stewart. Includes (among others): Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthe, Selma Burke, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Meta Vaux Fuller, Palmer Hayden, Charles S. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Archibald Motley, Richard B. Nugent, James A. Porter, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Henry O. Tanner, James Vanderzee, Laura W. Waring, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. 4to (30 cm.; 11.5 x 8.6 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed. ISBN: 0810981289

CHARLOTTE (NC). Light Factory
Of Pride and Pain: Photographs by Christian Walker, Deborah Willis and Carla Williams
November 13, 1992-January 15, 1993
Three person exhibition.

CHARLOTTE (NC). The Light Factory
Family Matters
May 20-June 30, 2004
Twp-person exhibition of photographs by Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas.

COTTMAN, MICHAEL H.
Million Man March
New York: Crown, 1995
96 pp., illus. A pictorial record of the March. Photo editor Deborah Willis. 4to (28 cm.), wraps. ISBN: 0517887630

DENTON (TX). Texas Women's University
Mother to Son: Photographs by DEBORAH WILLIS and HANK THOMAS
2003
Two interrelated bodies of work by artist and historian Deborah Willis and her son, photographer Hank Thomas. Images published in Photophile Number 46.

HALL, STUART and MARK SEALY, eds
Different: Historical Context Contemporary Photographers and Black Identity
London and New York: Phaidon, 2001
207 pp., b&w and color illus. (most full-page), index of artists. Major text by Stuart Hall. Includes: Gordon Parks, Seydou Keita, Mama Casset, Peter Magubane, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and Armet Francis, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Ajamu Ikwe Tyekimba, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ike Ude, Samuel Fosso, Vincent Allen, Anthony Lam, Faisal Abdu’ Allah, Yinka Shonibare, Albert V. Chong, Peter Max Khondola, Sunil Gupta, Maxine Walter, Chila Burman, Joy Gregory, Poulomi Desai, Dawoud Bey, Clement Cooper, Roshini Kempadoo, Dave Lewis, David Bailey, Roy Mehta, Deborah Willis, Eileen Perrier, Faizal Sheikh and Eustaguio Neves, Ricky Maynard, Remy Gastambide, Eric Lesdema, Mitra Tabrizian, et al. 4to, pictorial papered boards. First ed. ISBN: 0714840149

HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University
The International Review of African American Art Volume 17, no. 2

This issue contains: William Pajaud and the Jazz Funeral Tradition; article on Danny Simmons and the jazz hip-hop visual traditionempireby Cherilyn Wright; Aaron Douglas at 100 by Aaronetta Pierce. Imagining the Amistad; William Tolliver 1951-2000 (obituary); New Thoughts About That Old Black Magic by Juliette Harris; A Mother's Grief; an Artist's Response by Leatha Mitchell; A Publishing First! By Harriet Kelley; Art; Love and Sex In Black and White by Stephanie Saft-Phelan; Deborah Willis; Artist and Scholar by Winston Kennedy. Artwork by:William Pajaud (cover), Edouard Duval-Carrie, Allan Rohan Crite, Palmer Hayden, Claude Clark; Elizabeth Catlett, Leroy Clark, Vincent Smith, Antonio Carreno, Danny Simmons, Aaron Douglas, Nathaniel Jocelyn, Colleen Coleman, Howardena Pindell, Ed Hamilton, Delphine Fawundu, Jeffery Henson Scales, William Tolliver, Pierre Legrain, Sylvia Snowden, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Addison N. Scurlock, Ted Pontiflet. 4to, wraps. ISBN: J

HAMPTON. The International Review of African American Art
The International Review of African American Art Vol. 14, no. 3 (Stereotypes Subverted? Or for Sale?)
1997
Important multi-article discussion of the use of racial stereotypes in the visual arts. Articles by Karen C.C. Dalton, Michael D. Harris and Lowery Sims (The Past is Prologue but is Parody and Pastiche Progress?); Phyllis J. Jackson (IN) forming the Visual: (RE) Presenting Women of African Descent; Robert G. O'Meally (Jazz Albums as Art: Some Reflections); Joanne Nerlino (The Visual Art of Miles Davis); Cece Bullard (Afrodisiac: A Taste of Black Erotic Art). Images by Kara Walker, Michael Ray Charles, Betye Saar, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joanne Scott, Murray N. Depillars, Joyce J. Scott, Freida High, Robert Colescott, Manuel Hughes; Camille Billops, Angela Franklin, Tom Miller, Wendell Brown; Meta Warrick Fuller, Renee Stout, Carrie Mae Weems, Kira Lynn Harris, Deborah Willis, Faith Ringgold, Renee V. Cox, Clarissa Sligh, Adrian Piper, Pat Ward Williams, Sandra Rowe, Noni Olabisi, Lorna Simpson; Charles Alston, Miles Davis, John T. Biggers, Gwendolyn Aqui, Larry Poncho Brown; photos of the Tougaloo art colony (including Johnnie Mae Gilbert, Ricky Callaway, Emmit Patton, Yvonne Tucker, James Powell); Willis Bing Davis, Jose Bedia, Richard Wyatt (adv). ISBN: J

HARLEY, SHARON and the Black Women and Work Collective, eds.
Sister Circle: Black Women and Work
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002
xxii, 288 pp., illus., notes, index. Foreword by Nellie Y. McKay. 15 essays on many different spheres and kinds of working women environments. Includes: Searching for Memories: Visualizing My Art and our Work by Deborah Willis. 8vo (24 cm.), cloth. First ed. ISBN: 0813530601

KATONAH (NY). Katonah Museum of Art
Re/righting History Counternarratives By Contemporary African-American Artists
March 14-May 16, 1999
36 pp. exhib. cat., 20 full page color plates (including cover plate) 11 b&w illus., notes. Curated by Barbara Bloemink; text by Lisa Gail Collins. Artists includes: Emma Amos, Camille Billops, Beverly Buchanan, Michael Ray Charles, Willie Cole, Robert Colescott, Tony Gray, Kerry James Marshall, David McGee, Lorraine O'Grady, Adrian Piper, Faith Ringgold, Lezley Saar, Joyce Scott, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Pat Ward Williams, Deborah Willis. 4to, pictorial stiff wraps. First ed. ISBN: 0915171511

KIM, ELAINE H., MARGO MACHIDA, and SHARON MIZOTA
Fresh talk, daring gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003
xxiii, 210 pp., b&w and color illus., bibliog., index. A complex compendium of essays on the imaginary of Asian America, not exclusively by Asian American artists. Images with plate commentaries include numerous black artists and critics: Faith Ringgold, Deborah Willis, Albert Chong:, Kobena Mercer, Lowery Stokes Sims, Odili Donald Odita, Homi K. Bhabha, Ellen Gallagher. 8vo (27 cm.) ISBN: 0520235355

KING-HAMMOND, LESLIE and bell hooks
Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists
New York, Midmarch Arts Press, 1995
351 pp., over 300 illus. (11 in color), photo and /or illus., biogs, exhibs.. and brief critical text for each artist, index. Essential reference listing 152 women artists with entries by African American scholars and curators; many others are mentioned in passing. Artists discussed include: Faith Ringgold, Joyce J. Scott, Xenobia Bailey, Carol Ann Carter, Renee Green, Betye Saar, Clarissa Sligh, Senga Nengudi, Viola Burley Leak, Edmonia Lewis, May Howard Jackson, Meta Warrick Fuller, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Caimille Billops, Maren Hassinger, Bessie Harvey, Artis Lane, Valerie Maynard, Winnie Owens-Hart, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Sana Musasama, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Mildred Thompson, Beverly Buchanan, Annie Walker, Laura Waring, Georgette Powell, Lois Jones, Gwendolyn Knight, Irene Clark, Vivian Browne, Clementine Hunter, Delilah Pierce, Rose Piper, Harriet Powers, Malkia Roberts, Howardena Pindell, Yolanda Sharpe, Shirley Woodson, Joyce Wellman, Sylvia Snowden, Emma Amos, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Cynthia Hawkins, Deborah Willis, Denise Ward-Brown, Alison Saar, Lorna Simpson, Coreen Simpson, Adrian Piper, Lorraine O'Grady, Renée Stout, Alma Thomas, Gladys-Marie Fry. Quitmakers include: Cuesta Benberry, Rosalind Jeffries [as Roslind], Emma Amos, Rose Auld, Mildred Baldwin, Ellen Banks, Trena Banks, Phoebe Beasley, Betty Blayton, Lula Mae Blocton, Kabuya P. Bowens, Brenda Branch, Kay Brown [as Kaye], Selma Burke, Millie Burns, Carole Byard, Nanette Carter, Catti, Robin Chandler, Marie Cochran, Virginia Cox, Pat Cummings, Mary Reed Daniel, Juette Day, Nadine DeLawrence, Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Marita Dingus, Yanla Dozier, Tina Dunkley, Malaika Favorite, Violet Fields, Ibibio Fundi, Olivia Gatewood, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Michele Godwin, Gladys Barker Grauer, Renée Green, Ethel Guest, Cheryl Hanna, Inge Hardison, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Cynthia Hawkins, Janet Henry, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Adrienne Hoard, Robin Holder, Jenelsie Holloway, Jacqui Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Mildred Howard, Margo Humphrey, Irmagean, Suzanne Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Marva Lee Pitchford Jolly, Lois Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Kai Kambel, Margaret Kelly, Gwendolyn Knight, Ruth Lampkins, Artis Lane, Viola Leak, Dori Lemeh, Mary Le Ravin, Rosalind Letcher, Samella Lewis, Marcia Lloyd, Fern Logan, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeyer, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon, Geraldine McCullough, Vivian McDuffie, Joanne McFarland, Vicki Meek, Yvonne Meo, Eva Hamlin Miller, Corinne Howard Mitchell, Evangeline Montgomery, Norma Morgan, Lillian Morgan-Lewis, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Deborah Muirhead, Sana Musasama, Marilyn Nance, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Winifred Owens-Hart, Sandra Payne, Janet Taylor Pickett, Delilah Williams Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Rose Piper, Stephanie Pogue, Georgette Powell, Debra Priestly, Mavis Pusey, Helen Ramsaran, Patricia Ravarra, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Aminah Robinson, Sandra Rowe, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Eve Sandler, Joanne Scott, Joyce Jane Scott, Cheryl Shackleton, Yolanda Sharpe, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Jewel Simon, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Clarissa Sligh, Gilda Snowden, Sylvia Snowden, Shirley Stark, Janet Stewart, Renée Stout, Ann Tanksley, Vivian Tanner, Anna Tate, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Barbara Thomas, Mildred Thompson, René Townsend, Yvonne Tucker, Ruth Waddy, Denise Ward-Brown, Fan Warren, Bisa Washington, Mary Washington, Joyce Wellman, Adell Westbrook, Linda Whitaker, Pat Ward Williams, Philemona Williamson, Deborah Willis-Braithwaite, Shirley Woodson, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Grannie Dear Williams, Mary Le Ravin, Bessie Harvey, Anna Tate. 4to (11 x 8.5 in ), wraps.

LEVERING, DAVID and DEBORAH WILLIS, eds.
A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
Amistad Press, 2003
208 pp., illus., bibliog. Over 150 photographs presented by W.E.B. Dubois in his display at the Exposition Universelle 1900 in Paris. These photographs are part of the Daniel Murray Collection at the Library of Congress. Texts by David Levering Lewis and Deborah Willis. Sq. 8vo (22 cm.; 8 x 8 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed. ISBN: 0060523425

LOS ANGELES (CA). California African-American Museum,
Through the Gates: Brown v. Board of Education
February 5-July 31, 2004
General exhibition curated by Rick Moss; art component curated by Isabelle Lutterodt and Karin Pleasant. Featured 15 artists of different ethnic backgrounds, working in a variety of media such as installation, photograph, video, and painting: Kim Abeles, Makeda Best, Joe Ceballos, Kianga Ford, Dennis Keeley, Jen Liu, John Outterbridge, Elliott Pinkney, Ama Schulman, Dread Scott, Colette Veasey-Cullors, Larry M. Walker, C. Ian White and Deborah Willis.

MONTREAL (Canada). Le Mois de la Photo
New Works by Black Women Photographers
1989
Group exhibition. Curated by Deborah Willis.

MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE, JEANNE
Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986
224 pp., 182 illus., individual bio-bibliogs., listing of photographers, geographical list, footnotes, general bibliog., index. Important survey and reference work with numerous artists not included elsewhere. Includes approximately 115 artists: Barbara Dumetz, Sharon Farmer, Mikki Ferrill, Louise Jefferson, Elaine Tomlin, Michelle Agins, Salimah Ali, Gladys Allen, Winifred Hall Allen, Esther Anderson, Dana Asbury, Carol Augustus, Hattie Baker, Donna Marie Barnes, Carolyn Bell-Taitt, Ellen Blalock, Carol Parrott Blue, Johnnie Mae Bomar, Sandra Turner Bond, Bonnie Brissett, Charlotte Brooks, Queen E. Brooks, Alberta H. Brown, Millie Burns, Lucy Calloway, Michelle Campbell, Charlotte, Marna Clarke, Helen Jones Chur, Juanita Cole, Bonnie Collins, (Mrs.) Collins, Cary Beth Cryor, Billie Louise Barbour Davis, Lenore Davis, Pat Davis, Perla De Leon, Theodora Dorsey, Emma Alice Downs, Barbara Dumetz, Sharon Farmer, Phoebe Farris, Anna Faulkner, Mikki Ferrill, Mary E. Flenoy, Collette V. Fournier, Leisant Giraux, Dorothy Gloster, Lucy Gums, Edna Guy, Rosalind Guy, Susan Hacker, Ella Hamlin, Lydia Hammond, Gail Adelle Hansberry, Inge Hardison, Elise Forrest Harleston, Adelle Hodge, Zebonia Hood, A. Grendel Howard, Ann Elizabeth Jackson, Vera Jackson, Louise Jefferson, Marjorie Johnson, Julia Jones, Gertrude Lewis, Fern Logan, Marie Lovelace, Augusta Mann, Louise Ozell Martin, Lydia Mayo, Dora Miller, Lavina C. Miller, Marlene Montoute, Diane Moore, Shelley Moore, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Carol Mungin, Marilyn Nance, Jacqueline Lavetta Patten, Gwen Phillips, Patricia Phipps, Diane Louise Preacely, Phillda Ragland-Njau, Akili-Casundria Ramsess, Deborah Ray, Sean Reynolds, Debbie Richardson, Johnnie Dell Robinson, Wilhelmina Pearl Selena Roberts, Eslanda Cardoza Goode Robeson, Reenie Schmerl, Hazel Shumate, Naomi Simonetti, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Marie C. Simpson, Ming Smith, Kalima Soham, Joan Byrd Stephens, Jo Moore Stewart, Lauren Stradford, Kathleen-Marie Taylor, Kay Taylor, Elnora Teal, Rosetta C. Teasdale, Fanny J. Thompson, Elaine Tomlin, Mary E. Warren, Leah Ann Washington, Ruby Washington, Ruth B. Brummel Washington, Sharon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Jennie Louise Welcome, Judith White, Adine Williams, Elizabeth ("Tex") Williams, Deborah Willis-Ryan, Delcina Wilson, Joyce R. Wilson, Emma King Woodward, Ethel Worthington. 4to (28 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

NEUMAIER, DIANE, ed.
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996
xii, 319 pp., 262 illus. 76 in color, brief biogs., list of illustrations. Eight excellent critical texts by Deborah Willis, Catherine Lord, Valerie Soe, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Theresa Harlan, Lucy R. Lippard, and others on 45 selected photographers whose work addresses a variety of issues that have concerned feminist photographers in the past two decades. African American artists include: Marilyn Nance, Clarissa Sligh, Adrian Piper, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Pat Ward Williams. Small 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.

NEW YORK (NY). Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Deborah Willis / Rimer Cardillo
October 20-November 17, 2001
Two person exhibition.

NEW YORK (NY). Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Gallery Artists I & II
July 18, 1996-September 10, 1996
Group exhibition of 21 artists including several African American women artists: Beverly Buchanan, Lori Greene, Maud Sulter, Deborah Willis.

NEW YORK (NY). Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Gallery Gang Group Gala
January 11-February 8, 1997
Group exhibition of 20 artists including several African American artists: Beverly Buchanan, Emilio Cruz, Lori Greene, Renee Stout, Deborah Willis.

NEW YORK (NY). Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Lori Greene and Deborah Willis: Family Matters
November 25-December 30, 1995
Two person exhibition by two African American women artists.

NEW YORK (NY). Cooper Union School of Art
Techno Seduction
1997
Deborah Willis and Robert Rinder.

NEW YORK (NY). Fordham University
Reflections of Self
1986
Exhib. cat. Text by Deborah Willis. Included Clarissa T. Sligh.

NEW YORK (NY). Kenkeleba Gallery
Two Schools: New York and Chicago - Contemporary African-American Photography of the 60s and 70s
1986
Unpag. (28 pp.) exhib. cat., 24 full page duotone plates, plus 2 cover plates. Texts by Deborah Willis and Frank Stewart. Important exhibition catalogue on African American photography in the 1960s and 1970s. Includes: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Marilyn Nance, Jim Taylor, Mickey Mathis, Ed Sherman, Robert Crawford, Brent Jones, Ray Francis, Billy Abernathy, Vance Allen, Ozier Muhammad, Jim Hinton, Todd Gray, Robert Sengstacke, Frank Stewart, John Pinderhughes, Omar Kharem.and many more. Small 4to, wraps.

NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
14 Photographers
1983
16 pp., 14 b&w illus., biographical info on each photographer. Text by Deborah Willis-Thomas. Includes: Omobowale Ayorinde, Martine Barrat, Albert Chong, C. Daniel Dawson, George Hallett, Fern Logan, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Marilyn Nance, Bill Peronneau, Wayne Providence, Ming Smith, Otis Sprow, Jon Thomas, Wendel A. White. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed.

NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Black Images in Film: A Photographic Exhibition
1983
Exhibition catalogue. Text by Deborah Willis.

NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New World Africans: Nineteenth Century Images of Blacks in South America and the Caribbean
1985
19 pp. exhib. cat., 5 sepia illus. of images from Chile and Brazil, checklist of 76 items covering most South American countries and 10 islands in the Caribbean. Texts by Deborah Willis-Ryan and H. F. Hoffenburg. Photographs taken from 1860-1920. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed.

NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem
African Queen

Group exhibition focusing on images of black women.. Over 50 works in various media by 30 contemporary artists. Curated by Rashida Bumbray, Ali Evans, Sandra D. Jackson and Christine Y. Kim. Includes (among others): John Bankston, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Chakaia Booker, Renee Cox, Rico Gatson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Barkley Hendricks, Deana Lawson, Kalup Linzy, Adia Millett, Nzingah Muhammad, Wangechi Mutu, Kori Newkirk, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Nadine Robinson, Tracey Rose, Rudy Shepherd, Malick Sidibe, Lorna Simpson, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Fatimah Tuggar, Ike Ude, James VanderZee, Francesco Vezzou, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis.

NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem
On Freedom: The Art of Photojournalism
1986
Exhibition catalogue. Text by Deborah Willis.

NEW YORK. College Art Association
Directory of People of Color in the Visual Arts
1993
Foreword, Murry DePillars; essay by Faith Ringgold. Individuals are indexed by name (with address, phone number, fax, etc.) as well as by discipline: academic, arts organization, self-employed /unaffiliated, museum/gallery; by ethnicity; and by state. Limited attempt to put together a Who's Who of Color in the Arts, based on the membership list of an organization with only 80 African American members at the time of publication.. Wraps.

OCEANVILLE (NJ). Noyes Museum of Art
Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey
January 18-April 27, 2003
180 pp., illus. Introduction by Charles Ashley Stainback: essays by Wendell A. White, Deborah Willis, Stedman Graham, and Clement Alexander Price. [Also exhibited at Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 15-July 15, 2003.] 4to (27 x 29 cm.), wraps. First ed. ISBN: 0972395105

PHILADELPHIA (PA). Afro American Historical and Cultural Museum
Contemplative Moments: Photographic Works by Clarissa Sligh and Hilton Braithwaite
1993
Exhibition catalogue. Text by Deborah Willis.

PHILADELPHIA (PA). Balch Institute
A Likeness Preserved: Afro-American Philadelphians: Color, Class, and Style
1988
Exhibition catalogue. Text by Deborah Willis.

PHILADELPHIA (PA). Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
Philadelphia African Americans: Color, Class & Style, 1840-1940
1988
102 pp., 16 color plates, over 100 b&w illus., checklist of 300 items, illustrations, paintings, documents, and numerous historic photographs of all aspects of black society and culture during this important 100 year period. Texts by Deborah Willis, Gail F. Stern and David McBride. 4to, wraps. First ed. ISBN: 0937437034

PITTSBURGH (PA). University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery
A Sense of Place: Recent Work by Six Contemporary African American Artists
October 6 -December 9, 2005
Group exhibition of painting sculpture, photography, mixed media work. Co-curated by Joyce Henri Robinson and Josienne N. Piller. Includes: Beverly Buchanan, Willie Cole, Whitfield Lovell, Betye Saar, Renee Stout, Deborah Willis.

SCOTTSDALE (AZ). Museum of Contemporary Art
Hair Stories
October 3, 2003-January 4, 2004
Travelling exhibition. 64 pp., 24 color plates, 2 b&w historical photos, biogs., exhib. checklist.Texts by Kim Curry-Evans, Dr. Neal A. Lester. Includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, Milton Bowens, Mark Bradford, Sonya Clark, Tina Dunkley, Bill Gaskins, Kojo Griffin, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Jacob Lawrence, Cathleen Lewis, Stephen Marc, Kerry James Marshall, Beverly McIver, Kori Newkirk, Gordon Parks, Nadine Robinson, Alison Saar, Lorna Simpson, Joe Willie Smith, James Vanderzee, Cynthia Wiggins, Kehinde Wiley, Deborah Willis. 4to, wraps. First ed. ISBN: 0967026547

SHEBOYGAN (WI). John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings
1998
76 pp. exhib. cat., 38 color plates. Essay by Alison Ferris. The work of 31 artists who utilize fiber-based materials in works about issues such as domesticity, the body, masculinity, femininity, social and political commentaries, race, ethnicity, and colonialism. Only 1 African American artist included: Deborah Willis. Wraps. ISBN: 0932718388

SUNSHINE, LINDA, ed.
Our Grandmothers: Loving Portraits by 74 Granddaughters

Includes texts by Marilyn Nance, Deborah Willis, Carla Williams.

SYRACUSE (NY). Light Work
Contact Sheet 124: Embracing Eatonville: A Photographic Survey by Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis
November 4-December 31, 2003
48 pp., 31 illus. (30 full-page, most in color), plus 1 text iillus. Intro. by Jeffrey Hoone; text by Franklin Sirmans; afterword by N.Y. Nathiri, statement by Weems. Small sq, 4to, pictorial card covers. First ed.

SYRACUSE (NY). Light Work
Contact Sheet 92
1992
24 pp., Features five contemporary American photographers, including two African Americans: Danny Tisdale and Deborah Willis-Kennedy. Sq. 8vo, wraps.

WALLIS, BRIAN and DEBORAH WILLIS, eds
African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection
Steidl, 2006
128 pp., 70 color plates. Images of African Americans in a variety of genres and poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits and so-called "Southern-views" made for tourist consumption, all dating from 1860 to 1960. 4to (11.3 x 8.5 in.), wraps. ISBN: 3865212255

WASHINGTON (DC). Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African American Art
February 14-June 15, 1999
27 pp. exhib. cat., 39 illus. (most in color). Text by Deborah Willis. Artists include: Akili Ron Anderson, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Donald Bernard, John Biggers, David Boothman, Archie Byron, Schroeder Cherry, Carl Clark, Linda Day Clark, Alvin Clayton, Floyd Coleman, Adger W. Cowans, Allan Rohan Crite, Michael Cunningham, Willis Bing Davis, Nadine DeLawrence, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, James E. Dupree, Espi Frazier, L'Merchie Frazier, Reginald Gammon, Eugene J. Grigsby, Jr., Leslie King-Hammond, Michael D. Harris, Chester Higgins, Reginald L. Jackson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ben Jones, Winston Kennedy, Melvina Lathan, Nashormeh Lindo, Arturo Lindsay, Valerie Maynard, Tom Miller, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Yahya Muhammad, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Lorenzo Pace, Johnice I. Parker, James Phillips, Paula Phillips, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Sheila Pree, Ken Royster, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Jeffrey Scales, Meg Henson Scales, Michael E. Scoffield, Elizabeth Talford Scott, Joyce Scott, Danny Simmons, Clarissa Sligh, David Smedley, Frank Smith, Mei-Tei-Sing Smith, Nelson Stevens, Renee Stout, Allen Stringfellow, Nina G. Squires, Henry Ossawa Tanner, William B. Taylor, James W. Washington, Jr., Richard J. Watson, James L. Wells, Pheoris West, Carlton Wilkinson, Richard Yarde. 4to (28 cm.), stapled wraps. First ed.

WASHINGTON (DC). Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
Resonant Forms: Contemporary African American Women Sculptors
April 13-September 30, 1998
16 pp. exhib. cat., 9 color plates, biogs., artist's statements, checklist of exhibited work by each artist. Curated and text by Deborah Willis-Kennedy. Artists include: Carole Byard, Beverly Buchanan, Denise Ward-Brown, Rashida Ferdinand, Kira Lynn Harris, Valerie Maynard, Renee Stout, Eve Sandler. Sq. 8vo, stapled pictorial wraps. First ed.

WEST NYACK. Rockland Center for the Arts
Public Voices, Private Visions
January 9-February 27, 2000
Elia Alba, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ellsworth Ausby, Bright Bimpoong, Millie Burns, D. Hamilton Caranda-Martin, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Colin Chase, Robert Colescott, Emilio Cruz, Saliou Diouf, Bret Cook-Dizney, Mel Edwards, Collette Fournier, Herbert Gentry, Ed Kirkland, Chester Higgins, Jr., Richard Mayhew, Jackie Mitchell, Lorraine O'Grady, Joe Overstreet, Lorenzo Pace, Howardena Pindell, Debra Priestly, Helen Ramsaran, Cara Renata, Faith Ringgold, Lezley Saar, Alison Saar, George Smith, Kaneem Smith, Deborah Willis, John Wilson.

WILLIAMSTOWN (MA). Williams College Museum of Art
Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest
1989
72 pp. exhibition catalogue, illus., bibliogs. Texts by Deborah Willis and Howard Dodson. Includes Emma Amos, Christian Walker, Pat Ward Williams, et al. 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed. ISBN: 0913697095

WILLIS, DEBORAH
Constructed Images: New Photography
New York: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989
28 pp., 16 b&w illus., biog., exhibs., and awareds for each artist, exhib. checklist of 72 works. Curated and intro. by Deborah Willis; text by Kellie Jones. Artists include Pat Ward Williams, Lorna Simpson, Jeffrey Scales, Albert Chong, Geno Rodriguez, Clarissa Sligh, Coreen Simpson, Ani Gonzalez-Rivera, Elisabeth Sunday, Todd Gray, Tyrone Georgiou, Leah Jaynes Karp, James Conner, Christian Walker, and Joan Eda. 4to (28 com), pictorial stapled wraps. First ed.

WILLIS, DEBORAH
Family, History, Memory: Recording African American Life
New York: Hylas, 2005
256 pp., illus. in b&w and color, selected bibliog. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A celebration of African-American life, identity and history. 8vo (22 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed. ISBN: 1592580866

WILLIS, DEBORAH and CARLA WILLIAMS
The Black Female Body: A Photographic History
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002
228 pp., 185 illustrations from the origins of photography to the present. The text examines Western culture's fascination with black women's bodies. African American photographers include: Harry Adams, Ajamu, James Lattimer Allen, Allison Bolah, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong, Renee Cox, Angele Etoundi Essamba, Elise Fitte-Duval, Kianga Ford, Joy Gregory, Lyle Ashton Harris, Chester Higgins, Jr., Allen Jackson, Roshini Kempadoo, Harlee Little, Fern Logan, Stephen Marc, John W. Mosley, Ming Smith Murray, Oggi Ogburn, Lorraine O'Grady, Catherine Opie, Gordon Parks, Edgar Eugene Phipps, Adrian Piper, Prentiss H. Polk, Richard Samuel Roberts, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Beuford Smith, James Vanderzee, Maxine Walker, Cynthia Wiggins, Carla Williams, Charles Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Deborah Willis. [Note: complete list of illustrations, not included in the book, are available at Carla Williams's website carlagirl.net]. 4to (30.5 x 23 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed. ISBN: 1566399289

WILLIS, DEBORAH, ed
Black Photographers: 1940-1988, An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography
New York: Garland, 1989
483 pp., over 350 illus. The most comprehensive list of Black photographers to date, with brief biographical entries on many artists and a few bibliographical entries on approximately half of the hundreds of names. Photographers included in Willis's earlier book, Black Photographers 1840-1940, receive only a mention here. An indispensable reference work. Artists discussed at length include: Omobowale Ayorinde, J. Edward Bailey, III, Anthony Barboza, et al. Large stout 4to, pictorial boards, no d.j. (as issued). First ed.

WINSTON-SALEM (NC). Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Personal Narratives: Women Photographers of Color
1993
16 pp., 9 b&w illus. (including cover plate), checklist of 30 works. Intro. by Jeff Fleming; excellent texts by Farah Jasmine Griffin and Fatimah Tobing Rony. Includes: Lorraine O'Grady, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Clarrissa T. Sligh, Carrie Mae Weems, Pat Ward Williams, Deborah Willis. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed.