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New York, New York

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis
Book Signing

Friday, February 6, 2009
6:00-7:30 p.m.

FREE

ICP Museum Store
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, New York
(212) 857-9725

Join Hank Willis Thomas as he signs copies of his Aperture monograph Pitch Blackness, and Deborah Willis, as she signs copies of her book Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.

Deborah Willis is a photo historian, curator, photographer, and chair and professor of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging. She was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, a 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award, and is one of the nation's leading historians of African-American photography and curator of African American culture. Some of her notable projects include Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present and Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. Hank Willis Thomas is her son.

Hank Willis Thomas received his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography, along with an MA in visual criticism from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. He has exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Studio Museum in Harlem; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Leica Gallery, New York; and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Willis Thomas is the first recipient of the Aperture West Book Prize, a new annual prize awarded by Aperture Foundation. Deborah Willis is his mother.

An excellent reportage about homeless people in Mongolia, a country where high inflation and lack of employement send people to the streets.


"Widespread unemployment in Mongolia has caused many social problems such as depression, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and crime. Otguntugs, 28, and his wife Ounsuren, 36, use what money they have from collecting bottles to purchase cheap Russian vodka which they drink in order to stave off the bitter cold that embraces Ulaanbaatar for large portions of the year."

Georgia O'Keefe in a photography showed in Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities, an excellent library resource.

Exactitudes is a real interesting photosite where photographers show their portfolios. Good info about forthcoming exhibitions!

As usual, such an intelligent blog as Web Urbanist, picking the unusual, the bizarre, the strange, the weird, the excentric. These gorgeous examples of the phographic Art in the beginning at the century should remind us that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (And it's not related to the kind of expensive gear we use :)

Delightful black and white photographies.