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Winner, Lucie Photo Book Prize / Photography Book of the Year, 2019
Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," Dawoud Bey has created a body of photography that masterfully portrays the contemporary American experience on its own terms and in all of its diversity.
Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply offers a forty-year retrospective of the celebrated photographer's work, from his early street photography in Harlem to his current images of Harlem gentrification. Photographs from all of Bey's major projects are presented in chronological sequence, allowing viewers to see how the collective body of portraits and recent landscapes create an unparalleled historical representation of various communities in the United States. Leading curators and critics-Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, Jacqueline Terrassa, Rebecca Walker, Maurice Berger, and Leigh Raiford-introduce each series of images.
Revealing Bey as the natural heir of such renowned photographers as Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee, Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply demonstrates how one man's search for community can produce a stunning portrait of our common humanity.
Contents
Introduction. The Art of Negotiation by Sarah Lewis
Harlem, U.S.A. Framing Harlem by Deborah Willis
Small Camera Work. The Daily Miracle by David Travis
Black-and-White Type 55 Polaroid Street Portraits. Young Man at a Tent Revival by Hilton Als
20 x 24 Polaroid Works. From the Streets into the Studio by Dawoud Bey
Class Pictures. What Is the "Work"? by Jacqueline Terrassa
Character Project
Strangers/Community. For Now. by Rebecca Walker
The Birmingham Project. A Remembrance of Lives Lost by Maurice Berger
Harlem Redux. Harlem Redux by Leigh Raiford
Chronology
Plates
Acknowledgments
