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Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects

By (author) Corey Keller, By (author) Elisabeth Sherman, Contributions by Torkwase Dyson, Contributions by Steven Nelson, Contributions by Imani Perry, Contributions by Claudia Rankine

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With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Beyâ€™s vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and for 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 Klanâ€™s bombing of Birmingham, Alabamaâ€™s 16th 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 seriesâ€™ place within Beyâ€™s wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate the worksâ€™ 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. Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 15â€“October 12, 2020) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (November 7, 2020â€“March 14, 2021) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 16â€“October 3, 2021)