Research Catalog

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

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Dyson, Torkwase,
• High Museum of Art, host institution.
• Keller, Corey,
• Nelson, Steven, 1962-
• Perry, Imani, 1972-
• Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, host institution, publisher.
• Sherman, Elisabeth (Museum curator),
• 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

• Dawoud Bey, an American project.
• Two American projects

Subject

• Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
• Bey, Dawoud, 1953- > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic
• Portrait photography > Exhibitions
• 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.

ISBN

• 0300248504
• 9780300248500

LCCN

• 2019947284
• 99987215354

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries