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Dawoud Bey

Portfolio of photographs acquired from Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black

February 22, 2021 - Jessica S. McDonald

In 2017, renowned portraitist Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953) reflected on his four-decade career by stating simply, “my work has largely been based on representation of the human subject.” He explained that he has used photography to depict “subjects such as the black subject, or young people, who are not always—within the larger social conversation—thought of as having a rich interior life.” In addition to these poetic portraits of ordinary people, Bey has recently begun confronting central events in African American history, asking, “what kind of work can one make about something that happened decades ago?”    [Read more…] about Portfolio of photographs acquired from Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black

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