Posing Beauty

This looks like a fantastic exhibition!

With “Posing Beauty,” Willis has for ever changed the conversation about beauty in American life. After centuries of exclusion and segregation in which African- American beauty existed on the margins of the culture, Willis offers readers a thoughtful and nuanced consideration of the relationship of beauty and power. She invites us to marvel at the glamour and elegance contained in the photographs, and in the process instructs us on how to expand the definition of beauty within our national imagination.

{Posing Beauty in African American Culture}