Research Catalog

Dawoud Bey : two American projects

Title
Dawoud Bey : two American projects / Corey Keller and Elisabeth Sherman ; with contributions from Torkwase Dyson, Steven Nelson, Imani Perry, Claudia Rankine.
Author
Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
Publication
  • San Francisco, CA : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library Sc+ F 21-16Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Details

Additional Authors
  • Keller, Corey
  • Sherman, Elisabeth (Museum curator)
  • Dyson, Torkwase
  • Nelson, Steven, 1962-
  • Perry, Imani, 1972-
  • Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, host institution, publisher.
  • High Museum of Art, host institution.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution.
Description
126 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and 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 The Birmingham Project, a series of paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the violent aftermath. Night Coming Tenderly, Black 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.
Alternative Title
  • Two American projects
  • Dawoud Bey, an American project.
Subject
  • Bey, Dawoud, 1953- > Exhibitions
  • Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • Portrait photography > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Portrait photography
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Directors' forewords / Neal Benezra and Adam D. Weinberg -- Now is the time / Corey Keller and Elisabeth Sherman -- Dawoud Bey's historical turn / Steven Nelson -- Plates: Night coming tenderly, black -- To fling my arms wide on: On Night coming tenderly, Black / Claudia Rankine -- Black compositional thought: black hauntology, plantationocene, and paradoxical form / Torkwase Dyson -- Plates: The Birmingham project -- Familiar grace / Imani Perry.
Call Number
Sc+ F 21-16
ISBN
  • 0300248504
  • 9780300248500
LCCN
2019947284
OCLC
1111944804
Author
Bey, Dawoud, 1953- photographer, artist.
Title
Dawoud Bey : two American projects / Corey Keller and Elisabeth Sherman ; with contributions from Torkwase Dyson, Steven Nelson, Imani Perry, Claudia Rankine.
Publisher
San Francisco, CA : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Keller, Corey, author.
Sherman, Elisabeth (Museum curator), author.
Dyson, Torkwase, contributor.
Nelson, Steven, 1962- contributor.
Perry, Imani, 1972- contributor.
Rankine, Claudia, 1963- contributor.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, host institution, publisher.
High Museum of Art, host institution.
Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution.
Added Title
Dawoud Bey, an American project.
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 21-16
View in Legacy Catalog