The Delaware Art Museum is introducing a new exhibition this month that encourages viewers to question how African-American beauty has been photographed and represented over the last century. The contemporary African-American artist, photographic historian and author Deborah Willis curated the selection of photos that span from the 1890s through today.

Museum chief curator Heather Campbell Coyle says she hopes this show sheds light and poignancy on the evolving perception and importance of beauty, especially in comparing the ideals projected in the more historical works with current critique and commentary made in the contemporary photographs. Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems and Jamel Shabazz, among others, will be included in the exhibition titled “Posing Beauty in African American Culture,” on view from October 19 to January 26, 2020.

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