# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-willis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:47:51.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-willis"
name: "Deborah Willis"
slug: "deborah-willis"
description: "Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society."
tagline: "African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deborah_Willis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1948-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             7.142857142857143
  historical:           6.815372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5968415/"
    handle:    "nm5968415"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://debwillisphoto.com/home.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Willis_(artist)"
    title: "Deborah Willis (artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE%D8%A9)"
    title: "ديبورا ويليس (مؤرخة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ديبورا ويليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Willis_(artist)"
    title: "Deborah Willis (artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Willis"
    title: "Deborah Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Willis_(artist)"
    title: "Deborah Willis (artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Willis_(artiste)"
    title: "Deborah Willis (artiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5248410"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5340399"
    title: "Deborah Willis-Koch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump