25 years ago, Reflections in Black changed photography

25 years ago, Reflections in Black changed photography

A History of Black Photographers — Deborah Willis’s photobook anthologised pictures made by James Van Der Zee, Anthony Barboza and other groundbreaking Black photographers from when the medium was invented. A new edition updates it with 21st century contributions. As a student at the Philadelphia College of Art, Deborah Willis remembers being one of three women seated with 18 white men in a class on photography history. “Where are the Black phot…