Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/08/2026 - 04/15/2026
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Location
Charles Blockson Library
Categories
The Reflections in Black: A Reframing exhibition, created from the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, is in the home stretch. You have just a few days to see it before it closes. Curated by author Dr. Deborah Willis, the exhibit highlights 130 new candid images by 21st-century artists from her acclaimed book, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. Her book is credited as the first in-depth history of African-American photographers.
The show accompanies the book’s 25th anniversary and celebrates photographers who document everyday life. Dr. Willis, a photographer and photography historian, is a professor and chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. The presentation of photographs “preserve the Black family, community, and resistance across generations,” according to promotional material. They include evocative images from the entertaining to the serious, like Arturo Holmes’ photo of pop singer, Lizzo, performing in concert in 2022, and Moneta J. Sleet Jr.‘s iconic photo of a forlorn Coretta Scott King comforting her daughter, Bernice, at her husband Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1968.
Free. Mondays to Fridays, 8 a.m. EST to 8 p.m. EST; Saturday, 9 a.m. EST to 5 p.m. EST; Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. EST. Temple University, Charles Blockson Library (1st Floor Exhibit Space), 1900 N. 13th St. https://library.temple.edu/exhibitions/reflections-in-black-a-reframing