Tag: Dawoud Bey

  • The Timeless Pleasures of Dawoud Bey’s Street Portraits | The New Yorker

    The Timeless Pleasures of Dawoud Bey’s Street Portraits | The New Yorker

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    The Timeless Pleasures of Dawoud Bey’s Street Portraits 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…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Dawoud Bey’s “An American Project” Finally Opens at the Whitney

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Dawoud Bey’s “An American Project” Finally Opens at the Whitney After repeated pandemic-related openings, closings, and reopenings at both SFMOMA and The High Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey’s survey exhibition Dawoud Be… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/dawoud-bey-s-an-american-project-finally-opens-at-the-whitney/ After repeated pandemic-related openings, closings, and reopenings at both SFMOMA and The High Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey’s…

  • 15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture

    15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture

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    15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work 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…

  • Dawoud Bey’s Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century – Feature Shoot

    Dawoud Bey’s Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century – Feature Shoot

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    Dawoud Bey’s Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century – Feature Shoot 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…

  • 11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work – Aperture Foundation NY

    11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work – Aperture Foundation NY

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    11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work 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…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – An American Project: Dawoud Bey’s Latest Show @ SFMoMA

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – 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… 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…

  • 12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work

    12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work

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    12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work 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…

  • Dawoud Bey, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shahidul Alam Win 2019 Infinity Awards | PDNPulse

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    Dawoud Bey, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shahidul Alam Win 2019 Infinity Awards | PDNPulse 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…

  • Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ – The New York Times

    Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ – The New York Times

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    Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ 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…

  • Photographer Dawoud Bey is awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship – The Washington Post

    Photographer Dawoud Bey is awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | ‘A radical reshaping of the world is possible, one person at a time’: Dawoud Bey on being awarded a MacArthur genius grant 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…

  • The Oldest Genius: Photographer Dawoud Bey named MacArthur Fellow – PhotoShelter Blog

    The Oldest Genius: Photographer Dawoud Bey named MacArthur Fellow – PhotoShelter Blog

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    The Oldest Genius: Photographer Dawoud Bey named MacArthur Fellow – PhotoShelter Blog 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/…

  • Dawoud Bey | 2017 MacArthur Fellow | A Photo Editor

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    Dawoud Bey | 2017 MacArthur Fellow – A Photo Editor 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…

  • On the Streets of Harlem, a Sense of ‘Erase and Replace’ – The New York Times

    On the Streets of Harlem, a Sense of ‘Erase and Replace’ – The New York Times

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    On the Streets of Harlem, a Sense of ‘Erase and Replace’ Dawoud Bey’s large-scale photos of Harlem show the legendary cradle of African-American life confronting speculation, displacement and gentrification. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/on-the-streets-of-harlem-a-sense-of-erase-and-replace-dawoud-bey/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 Dawoud Bey’s large-scale color photographs of Harlem vividly document a bustling and rapidly transforming neighborhood: a verdant Marcus Garvey Park; construction sites…

  • Lucie Awards Honor Lifetime Achievements

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    Lucie Awards Honor Lifetime Achievements | PDNPulse 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…

  • Wooster Collective: USA Network Brings Together 11 World-Renowned Photographers For Character Project

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    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. Check it out here.