Dawoud BeyDawoud Bey
Two American Projects
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Current format, Book, 2020, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsDawoud Bey (b 1953 is an American photographer best known for his largescale portraits of underrepresented subjects and his commitment to fostering dialogue about contemporary social and political topics Bey has also found inspiration in the past and in two recent series presented together here for the first time he addresses African American history explicitly with renderings both lyrical and immediate In 2012 Bey created The Birmingham Project a series of paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham Alabama's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church a site of mass civil rights meetings and the violent aftermath Night Coming Tenderly Black is a group of largescale blackandwhite landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated The book is introduced by an essay exploring the series' place within Bey's wider body of work as well as their relationships to the past the present and each other Additional essays investigate the works' evocations of race history time and place addressing the particularities of and resonances between two series of photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present
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- San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; New Haven CT : Yale University press, [2020]
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