Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/
Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.
https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/
His pictures make me think about the times I’ve walked down the street feeling invisible, until I pass another Black person who holds my gaze long enough for us to exchange a nod.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-timeless-pleasures-of-dawoud-beys-street-portraits
few years ago, while on a road-trip assignment with the photographer Andre Wagner, I began to needle him with questions about street photography. I wanted to know about the emotional mechanics and structure of it: what a photographer’s eye picks up, what makes a stranger agree to a moment of intimacy with someone she may never see again. Andre told me that it primarily entailed getting people to trust you within a short window of time. But there was another secret, too. Andre loved photographing Black people. They were familiar to him, as he was to them. He could read their cues, and sense their excitement. And so many of the Black people he encountered were eager to have their photos taken, just one adjustment away from being camera-ready.
After repeated pandemic-related openings, closings, and reopenings at both SFMOMA and The High Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey’s survey exhibition Dawoud Be…
After repeated pandemic-related openings, closings, and reopenings at both SFMOMA and The High Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey’s survey exhibition Dawoud Bey: An American Project will finally open at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Blissfully unaware of what was to come, we got a chance to write about and see the wonderful exhibition in San Francisco before everything shut down. If you can, make sure you check it out.
Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-photographers-on-how-imagination-shapes-their-work/
From the Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images.
On January 18, 1969, during the height of the Black Arts Movement in America, Thomas P.F. Hoving, then Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Allon Schoener mounted…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/06/dawoud-beys-powerful-portrait-of-black-america-over-half-a-century/
On January 18, 1969, during the height of the Black Arts Movement in America, Thomas P.F. Hoving, then Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Allon Schoener mounted Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968, a three month long multimedia exhibition designed extensively to highlight the history of Harlem throughout the twentieth century.
When should you bring a photographic project to an end? LaToya Ruby Frazier, Justine Kurland, Alec Soth, and more reflect on how to know when a series of work is complete.
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/11-photographers-on-how-to-finish-a-body-of-work/
Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf has heard countless young photographers say they often feel adrift in their own practices, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. This inspired her to seek out insights from a wide range of photographers about their approaches to making photographs and a sustained a body of work, which are brought together in PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Structured as a Proust-like questionnaire, the responses from both established and newly emerging photographers reveal that there is no single path. Below, eleven artists respond to the question: How do you know when a body of work is finished?
“A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/an-american-project-dawoud-bey-s-latest-show-sfmoma/
“A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be an actively working artist currently having a retrospective. “I’m working on a project in Lousiana, thinking of the work in front of me, work I have yet to do. Then a situation comes that demands you stop and look back, though as an artist you are looking forward. I tend not to stop, but I’m called to stop again and reflect on the past. That’s the unnerving piece.” The current exhibition showcases over eighty pieces from eight major series made over the course of more than forty years by the African American artist whose goal is to make photographs with a “real sense of interiority, to go beneath the surface.”
What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves?
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/12-photographers-concept-photowork/
Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf has heard countless young photographers say they often feel adrift in their own practices, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. She was inspired to seek insight from a wide range of photographers about their approaches to making photographs, and, more important, a sustained body of work. Their responses are compiled in PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Below, twelve artists respond to the first question in the interview series:
The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Rosalind Fox Solomon at the ICP gala to be held April 2. Shahidul Alam, who was jailed108 days in 2018, will receive a Special Presentation.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/02/dawoud-bey-rosalind-fox-solomon-shahidul-alam-win-2019-infinity-awards.html
The International Center of Photography has announced the winners of its 2019 Infinity Awards. Rosalind Fox Solomon will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dawoud Bey will receive the award for Art. The Emerging Photographer award will go to Jess T. Dugan, who studied with Bey at Columbia College Chicago and last year published her portraits of older transgender and gender non-conforming adults in the book To Survive on This Shore. The awards will be presented at a gala on April 2 in New York City.
A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/lens/dawoud-bey-seeing-deeply.html
As a socially conscious teenager, Dawoud Bey was intrigued by the controversy over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968.” The show featured photos, audio and text about daily life in Harlem. It did not, however, include paintings, drawings or sculptures by African-American artists, which sparked protests organized by the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition. Mr. Bey, then 16, went on his own to the museum, hoping to see the picket lines and find out more, but when he arrived there were none that day.
Photographer Dawoud Bey speaks to In Sight about being awarded a MacArthur genius grant.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/10/16/a-radical-reshaping-of-the-world-is-possible-one-person-at-a-time-dawoud-bey-on-being-awarded-a-macarthur-genius-fellowship/
“Receiving the MacArthur Fellowship is a tremendous affirmation and validation of the work I have been doing for the past 40 years. It affirms that the things I have worked to achieve with my work have considerable value to others in the field. My ongoing project has been to make work that engages the human community in a conversation with itself through making works of young people and African Americans and then situating those photographs in museums and galleries where other significant art objects exist.
Of the 24 extraordinary people who the MacArthur Foundation named as 2017 Fellows (commonly referred to as “Genius Grant” winners), one is a photographer. As the oldest recipient at age 64, Chicago-based photographer and educator Dawoud Bey photographs pe
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/10/oldest-genius-photographer-dawoud-bey-named-macarthur-fellow/
Of the 24 extraordinary people who the MacArthur Foundation named as 2017 Fellows (commonly referred to as “Genius Grant” winners), one is a photographer. As the oldest recipient at age 64, Chicago-based photographer and educator Dawoud Bey photographs people and things that he says “might be taken for granted.”
via A Photo Editor: http://aphotoeditor.com/2017/10/11/dawoud-bey-2017-macarthur-fellow/
Having spent 15 years photographing child marriages around the world, Stephanie Sinclair is uniquely positioned to understand its lasting impact on communities and, especially, on the girls who were forced to wed against their will. “You can’t expect individuals who have been through significant abuse to just act normal as soon as they get out of that situation,” she said. “They need to be nurtured, to be given the time and the tools to heal.”
Dawoud Bey’s large-scale photos of Harlem show the legendary cradle of African-American life confronting speculation, displacement and gentrification.
Dawoud Bey’s large-scale color photographs of Harlem vividly document a bustling and rapidly transforming neighborhood: a verdant Marcus Garvey Park; construction sites popping up for more luxury housing; street vendors hawking hats and used clothing; posters of black women’s hairstyles in the window of a hair weave distributor adjacent to a vacant lot; faded paper covering the windows of the legendary — and shuttered — Lenox Lounge; and white tourists intent on hearing gospel music waiting outside the Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Eli Reed, Bill Eppridge, Dawoud Bey and Rich Clarkson were among the veteran photographers honored for their contributions to photography at the 2011 Lucie Awards, held October 24 in New York City. In accepting the award for Achievement in Photojournalism
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/lucie-awards-honor-lifetime-achievements.html
Eli Reed, Bill Eppridge, Dawoud Bey and Rich Clarkson were among the veteran photographers honored for their contributions to photography at the 2011 Lucie Awards, held October 24 in New York City.
In addition to Mary Ellen Mark, the project features new work by Sylvia Plachy as well as Dawoud Bey, Jeff Dunas, David Eustace, Eric Ogden and emerging talents Marla Rutherford, Anna Mia Davidson, Joe Fornabaio, Eric McNatt and Richard Renaldi.