Dawoud Bey : Seeing Deeply

Bey, Dawoud (PHT)

ISBN 10: 1477317198 / ISBN 13: 9781477317198

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 2018

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33183616-n

Inhaltsangabe:

<p><b>Winner, Lucie Photo Book Prize / Photography Book of the Year, 2019</b></p><p>Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation &#8220;genius grant,&#8221; 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.</p><p><i>Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply</i> offers a forty-year retrospective of the celebrated photographer&#8217;s work, from his early street photography in Harlem to his current images of Harlem gentrification. Photographs from all of Bey&#8217;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&#8212;Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, Jacqueline Terrassa, Rebecca Walker, Maurice Berger, and Leigh Raiford&#8212;introduce each series of images.</p><p>Revealing Bey as the natural heir of such renowned photographers as Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee, <i>Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply</i> demonstrates how one man&#8217;s search for community can produce a stunning portrait of our common humanity.</p>

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: <div>Dawoud Bey&#8217;s work is held by major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to the MacArthur fellowship, Bey&#8217;s honors include the United States Artists Guthman Fellowship, 2015; the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, 2002; and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1991. He is Professor of Art and a former Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago.</div>

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dawoud Bey : Seeing Deeply
Verlag: University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New