Posing Beauty
Wednesday, September 30 2009
by Frank Stasio and Lindsay Thomas
curatorial.com/exhib_posingBeauty.html
While studying photography in the 1970s, Deborah Willis found it hard to relate to images of beauty in a visual culture that largely excluded African-American subjects. Willis spent a decade researching historical photography that challenged the mainstream understanding of beauty. She joins host Frank Stasio to share her exploration of society's reactions to black beauty and talk about her book, "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present" (WW Norton/2009).
