Opening Reception September 4, 2025 5:30 – 8:00 pm On View September 4 – December 21, 2025.
The Center for Black Visual Culture and The Department of Photography & Imaging Tisch School of the Arts invite you to celebrate the opening reception of Reflections in Black: A Reframing. 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 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. Join us for the exhibition opening receptions September 4, 2025 in two New York locations; Cooper Square Gallery 5:30- 7:00 pm, Photo & Imaging Galleries 6:00-8:00 pm.
Reflections in Black: A Reframing gathers approximately 125 works spanning photojournalism of the civil rights era, multimedia portraits of middle-class families, and twenty-first century life. The artists featured in the exhibition are A.P. Bedou, Albert Chong, Renee Cox, C. Daniel Dawson, Charles “Teenie” Harris, John W. Mosley, Kambui Olujimi, Gordon Parks, Laila AnnMarie Stevens, Cornelius Tulloch, and Carla Williams, among others.
Exhibition Locations
Cooper Square Gallery
20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003
On View: September 4 – October 15, 2025
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