Professor Deborah Willis shared an inspirational montage and captured more than 100 years of marketing, anthropological, political and artistic history during her presentation on Wednesday evening, February 11, 2009 at the Yale Afro-American Cultural Center.
Her "Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840-Present"
plus a special presentation from her new book Obama-The Historic Campaign in Photographs took the audience on an arousing visual, emotional and cognitive journey where time stood still and yet sped back into the past and into the future at the same time!
In Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840-Present, the award winning former curator for the Smithsonian's Center for African American History and Culture presented groundbreaking images of black life in America from 1940 to the present.
Her presentation included a fifteen minute presentation from her new book OBAMA: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, which commemorates the life of the man and campaign that have changed the face of American Politics forever. It includes photos of the candidate on the campaign trail with his family, images of his fellow contenders during their debates, the emotional faces of voters-many moved to the polls for the first time-inspired by his speeches, and many other poignant moments of the race.Ms. Willis is Chair and Professor of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging.
This free and open to the public educational opportunity was sponsored by Afro-American Cultural Center, History of Art, African-American Studies, Film Studies and the Photographic Memory Project
The book can be purchased locally from BlackPrint. http://www.blackprint.com/
Click on link for photo slide show:
http://www.slide.com/r/6J4rEd9usT-udn3BkJ8WIcZdkAS2PsT4
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