She would subsequently devote her career to unearthing, promoting, and celebrating photography by artists of the African diaspora. It inspired Willis to assemble a family photo album, trying to emulate the organization of images in DeCarava's book. It was, she recalls, the first time she had seen a book with photographs of black people, and the impact was indelible. Willis's most vivid early memory of the impact of photography came at age seven, when she encountered Roy DeCarava's photographs in The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) at the public library. Born in Philadelphia, Willis developed an early interest in photography from her father's cousin, who was the proprietor of a commercial photography studio and took many photographs of her family. Deborah Willis is a photographer, curator, and art and cultural historian.
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