Tag Archives: Deborah Willis
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot” (Temple, 2010)
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot”. Edited by Deborah Willis. Temple University Press, 288p, ISBN 978-1-4399-0205-9, $34.95.
Publishers Weekly Jan 4 2010 review:
Her name was Sarah Baartman. Born in South Africa in 1789, she died in Paris in 1815—after five years of being displayed (sometimes in a cage) for entertainment and “scientific study”; her pickled [...]
A bad pun or a bad idea?
An update today at Publishers Weekly:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA6711692
(I find the specific criticism of this image really surprising and unfounded. Poor Lauren Kelly—is the image itself—nevermind the headline—really that disturbing? I thought it was witty and stunning, and it’s always great to see the work of black photographers on the cover of anything, frankly. Are Afros and [...]
I’d call this a rave review
From today’s New York Times (congrats, Deb!):
Whether the lashed back of an enslaved person, the charred remains of a lynching victim or a terrified marcher fleeing a fire hose, shocking images of degradation seem to dominate the visual history of the African-American experience. Amid so much hardship, one might wonder what, if anything, to say [...]
Willis, Deborah. Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (Norton, 2009)
Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present Deborah Willis. Norton, $49.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-06696-8
Creative Loafing Review 10.20.09
Review in The Herald (Scotland) 09.28.09
Publisher’s Weekly review 09.28.09:
Willis (Reflections in Black), a MacArthur fellow and chair of New York University’s photography department, curates a collection of iconic portraits and snapshots by anonymous photographers in a “history [...]
