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During her early career, Deborah Willis sought to find and recognize photography created by African Americans. With the help of Richard Newman from Garland Publishing, she was able to create her first book “Black Photographers, 1840-1940: an Illustrated Bio-bibliography” (1985), which included over three hundred photographers in the book. As she described in an interview, many of the photographers were ready to throw out their work due to lack of recognition before the book. Continuing with her goal of recognizing black photographers, Deborah Willis came out with a second installment called “An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988” (1989) which also included contemporary photographers, as she previously intended to in the first installment.