Curated by Dr. Deborah Willis, this group photography exhibition accompanies the release of the 25th anniversary edition of Willis’ internationally acclaimed publication Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present; the first comprehensive history of black photographers. It includes original and modern prints and extends Dr. Willis's pioneering effort to reshape the narrative of American history, by centering the indisputable aesthetic, political, and cultural contributions of Black photographers from the 19th century to the present.
Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, Gulf & Western Galleries
721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
On View: September 4 - December 21, 2025
Artists:
A.P. Bedou, Adam Davis, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Alanna Airitam, Allison Janae Hamilton, Andre D. Wagner, Arturo Holmes, Ayana V. Jackson, Bill Gaskins, Brandy Dyess, C.M. Battey, Carla Williams, Carrie Mae Weems, Cecil Williams, Charles "Teenie" Harris, C. Daniel Dawson, Colette Veasey-Cullors, Cornelius Tulloch, Darryl Sivad, Denise Stephanie Hewitt, Dominic Pearson, Doug Harris, Dwight Carter, Eddie Elcha, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Ernest Russell, Faith Davis, Gerald Cyrus, Gerard H. Gaskin, Golden, Ivan Forde, Jack T. Franklin, Jamel Shabazz, James L. Allen, James Presley Ball, Janna Ireland, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeffrey Henson Scales, John Pinderhughes, Kambui Olujimi, Kennedi Carter, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Maaza Mengiste, Moneta J. Sleet Jr., Munachi Osegbu, Nadia Huggins, Qiana Mestrich, Rafia Santana, Richard Samuel Roberts, Ron Tarver, Satchel Lee, Scheherazade Tillet, Séan Alonzo Harris, Sheila Pree Bright, Steven M. Cummings, Terrence C. Jennings, Tyler Mitchell, Wendel A. White, William Earle Williams, Zalika Azim.
Cooper Square Gallery
20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003
On View: September 4 - October 15, 2025
Artists:
Ackeem Salmon, Albert Chong, Bayeté Ross-Smith, Bob Crawford, Bob Gore, Brian Palmer, Coreen Simpson, Collette V. Fournier, Chester Higgins, Cheryl Miller, Carl E. Lewis, Daesha Devón Harris, Dani Tyas, Eric Hart Jr., Fern Logan, Gordon Parks, Hank Willis Thomas, Herb Robinson, Jamaica Gilmer, John W. Mosley, Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Justin Johnson, Laila AnnMarie Stevens, LeRoy Henderson, Lola Flash, Lonnie Graham, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mel Wright, Ming Smith, Myra Greene, Nashormeh Lindo, Nicole Harrison, Renee Cox, Roy Wallace, Russell Frederick, Salimah Ali, Susan Ross, Terry Boddie, Yelaine Rodriguez, Zoraida Lopez-Diago.
Featured in the exhibition is The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles, Autograph’s pop-up photography display featuring 30 remarkable image panels, reproduced from rare 19th-century photographs portraying people of African, Caribbean and South Asian descent during the Victorian era in Britain. Their collective presence bears direct witness to the nation’s colonial and imperial history, and the expansion of the British Empire during the 19th and 20th Centuries. These portraits reveal an important, complex black presence in Britain before the SS Empire Windrush steamship arrived in 1948, which is often cited as a key moment in the emergence of a multicultural British society. Photographed in commercial studios in the latter half of the 19th century, many lay buried deep within the archives for decades, unseen for more than 125 years. The Missing Chapter will be on view at both exhibition locations.
Collections represented include Autograph, Hulton Archive (a division of Getty Images), National Portrait Gallery, Royal Collection Trust as well as the private collections of Val Wilmer, Michael Graham-Stewart, Amoret Tanner/FotoLibra and Paul Frecker/Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography.