Selected Publications
PHOTOGRAPHS
Tender, TBW Books, 2023.
Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Brian Piper, ed., New Orleans Museum of Art, 2023.
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, Jennifer Christine Nash, Duke University Press 2013
Taking Another Look At Race: Myra Greene and Carla Williams, Shawn Michelle Smith, Visual Studies Workshop 2009
Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890 to the Present, Deborah Willis, Norton 2009
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 2008
Blacks In and Out Of the Box, Lisa Henry, California African American Museum 2007
Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, Janell Hobson, Routledge 2005
The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past, Lisa Gail Collins, Rutgers 2002
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, Deborah Willis, W.W. Norton 2000
Anthologie de la Photographie africaine et de l'Océan Indien XIXe & XXe siècles, Editions Revue Noire 1998
Our Grandmothers, Linda Sunshine, editor, Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1998
Contact Sheet 94, Light Work, Syracuse, New York 1998
25 and Under, Alice Rose George, editor, Center for Documentary Studies and W.W. Norton & Co. 1996
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, Diane Neumaier, editor, Temple University Press 1996
SELECTED WRITING
“The Art of Being Seen as Being Seen,” in Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2023.
“Girls….I Like the Girls,” As/If, special issue edited by Mickalene Thomas, 2021.
“When we lay down,” Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama / Hail the Dark Lioness, Aperture, 2018.
“The Black Photographers Annual,” Aperture 223: Vision & Justice, Sarah Lewis, editor, Summer 2016.
2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography
“What Do Pictures Want?” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 41:1, July/August 2013.
“Carrie Mae Weems,” in Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, Tamar Garb, editor, Walther Collection 2013
“What Does Make the Hottentot So Hot?” in Fo Wilson, New York University 2013
“The Vènus Noire,” with Deborah Willis, in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 30, Salah Hassan, editor, Duke University Press 2012
Articles of Faith: African American Community Churches in Chicago by Dave Jordano, Center for American Places, 2009.
The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis, Temple University Press, 2002.
“Hardcore: The Radical Self‐Portraiture of Black Female Bodybuilders,” in Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum of Contemporary Art 2000
Winner, Sixteenth Annual Susan Koppelman Awards Honoring Feminist Editing of Anthologies, Multi-°©‐Authored, or Edited Books in American Culture or Popular Cultural Studies of Any Place or Period, 2001.
Photography from 1839 to Today: George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, (contributing author) Taschen with International Museum of Film and Photography at George Eastman House 1999
“About Birthdays,” in Our Grandmothers, Linda Sunshine, editor, New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1998
“The Erotic Image is Naked and Dark,” in Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, Deborah Willis, editor, The New Press 1994
Winner, Infinity Award, International Center for Photography, New York 1994
