selected publications

          books

The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, with Deborah Willis, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, February 2002.

Thurgood Marshall (Journey to Freedom children's book series), Chanhassen, Minnesota: The Child's World, 2002.

The Underground Railroad (Journey to Freedom children's book series), Chanhassen, Minnesota: The Child's World, 2002.

          contributor

Contributor, The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004.

 "21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography," Black & White Magazine 19, June 2002.

 Contributor, www.glbtq.com, an online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.

"Recent Black Photographers," PhotoPoint Magazine (now defunct), January 17, 2001.

          essays

Introduction, Family History Memory: Recording African American Life by Deborah Willis, Irvington, New York: Hylas Publishing, 2005.

"Body Baggage," New York Newsday, February 8, 2004.

Dialogue with Lyle Rexer, Man-ifestations: Photographs of Men, exhibition catalogue, Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach Community College, 2004.

"Telling Stories, Making (Hi)stories: The Narrative Impulse," Screenings: Private and Public, exhibition catalogue, Noyes Museum of Art, 2004.

Introduction, First Seen: Portraits of the World's Peoples, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2004.

"Collecting Memory: Portraiture, Posing, and Desire," A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection, Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Contributor, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, second edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, to be published.

Contributor, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, edited by Colin Palmer, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, to be published.

Contributor, Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, edited by Richard Dozier, Richard Powell, Helen Shannon, and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Grolier Academic Reference, to be published.

 "Naked, Neutered, or Noble: Extremes of the Black Female Body and the Problem of Photographic History," in Kimberly Wallace Sanders, ed., Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

 "Maudelle Bass: An Artist's Model," Fotophile: The Journal for Creative Photographers, No. 41, 2002.

"The Black Female Body in Photographs from World's Fairs and Expositions," with Deborah Willis, in "Race, Photography, and American Culture," exposure, volume 33, 1/2, Daytona Beach, Florida: Society for Photographic Education, 2000.

"'Jake in Transition from Female to Male'" series, or, Through the Mirror and What Clarissa Found There," Contact Sheet 112, Syracuse: Light Work, 2002.

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"So Much Life Here: Portraits at Imperial Courts," Portraits at Imperial Courts and Eight Women in Jeffersonville, Indiana (Photographs by Dana Lixenberg), exhibition catalog, Los Angeles: knowtribe and the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, 15 May - 15 June 1999.

 "A Prayer For the Living [The Photographs of Fazal Sheikh

          editor

exposure, the Journal of the Society for Photographic Education