What do Dawoud Bey photos represent?

Mr. Bey returned to Harlem in 2014 to photograph a city in the throes of gentrification for his “Harlem Redux” series. As Harlem’s physical and social landscape changed drastically, Mr. Bey’s images offer a meditation on the loss of cultural memory, place and identity.

What locations did Dawoud Bey make his photos?

A Man in a Bowler Hat, Harlem, NY, c. 1976.

Who represents Dawoud Bey?

Sean Kelly
Dawoud Bey, the Chicago-based photographer who was previously represented by Mary Boone Gallery, has joined the roster of Sean Kelly in New York. He’ll have his first show at the Hudson Yards gallery in the winter of 2020.

What is Dawoud Bey known for?

Dawoud Bey (born David Edward Smikle; 1953) is an American photographer and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community, and other often marginalized subjects.

Why did Dawoud Bey change his name?

It was around this time that he changed his name from David Smikle to Dawoud Bey, inspired by many artists at the time (such as the poet Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones) who were reclaiming African names as a gesture of agency.

Is Dawoud Bey deaf?

Bey, who has severe hearing loss, first made his name as a street photographer, capturing life in Harlem in the 1970s.

How did Dawoud Bey get started as a photographer?

Dawoud Bey has been investigating the conventions of photographic portraiture for nearly 20 years. He began his career as a photographer in 1975 by taking pictures of people on the streets of Harlem.

What kind of art does Dawoud Bey do?

Dawoud Bey, based in Chicago, was born in 1953 in Queens, New York. Celebrated for his rich, psychologically compelling portraits, Bey explores in his work a range of formal and material methodologies to create images and projects that connect deeply with the communities he photographs.

When was Dawoud Bey at the Art Institute of Chicago?

Illustrated p.77 in Dawoud Bey, Harlem U.S.A, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. Gelatin silver photograph. 1978-79 print. Signed and dated in pencil by artist on print verso. Illustrated p.60 in Dawoud Bey, Harlem U.S.A, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. Gelatin silver photograph. 2011 print.

When is Dawoud Bey seeing deeply being published?

In 2018 a major forty-year retrospective publication, Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply, was published by the University of Texas Press and in 2020, Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects will be published by Yale University Press and SFMOMA.

When was Dawoud Bey’s Harlem, USA published?

Harlem, USA was published by Yale University Press in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012, where the work was exhibited in its entirety for the first time since it was shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979.