Dawoud Bey - by Corey Keller & Elisabeth Sherman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Dawoud Bay: an American project held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 15-May 25, 2020; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 27-October 18, 2020; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 20, 2020-April 4, 2021.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place</b> <p/> Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and for 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 <i>The Birmingham Project</i>, a series of paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the violent aftermath. <i>Night Coming Tenderly, Black</i> is a group of large-scale black-and-white 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Bey has amassed a majestic oeuvre . . . a glorious tapestry that captures the breathtaking depth, intricate nuances, and limitless complexities of Black life in America over the past half century. In <i>Two American Projects</i>, Bey charts a new map of the past, using photography as a means to explore histories told and untold in a new light."--Miss Rosen, <i>Feature Shoot</i> <p/>"Then and now, portrait and landscape, history and consequence, all converge in Bey's timeless black-and-white photographs that convey the Black American experience with insightful and contagious empathy."--Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy, <i>What Will You Remember </i>("Favorite Photobooks of 2020") <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Corey Keller </b>is curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. <b>Elisabeth Sherman </b>is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.</p>
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