January 17, 2013- Paris, France- Visual Artist Hank Willis Jr. attend the Black Portraiture(s): The Black Body in the West Conference Day 1 held at Ecole national superieure des beaux-arts on January 17, 2013 in Paris, France. The Black Body in the West, the fifth in a series of conferences organized by Harvard University and NYU since 2004 explores ideas of the production of self-representation, desire and the exchange gaze from the 19th century to the present day in fashion, film, art and the archives. (Terrence Jennings)