The African American Campus Community Resource Group will present a lecture by Deborah Willis, University Professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University, and a film screening of Through A Lens Darly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.
The free, public event is today, Friday, Feb. 27, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center.
Willis’ projects include The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Carla Williams and Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers – 1840 to the Present, which is the focus of the documentary film Through a Lens Darkly.
The lecture is presented in partnership with the President’s Advisory Council on Minorities, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Office for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equal Opportunity, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.