Dawoud Bey : Class Pictures

Informationen zum Autor Dawoud Bey earned his MFA from Yale University School of Art and is professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago. He has been featured in numerous exhibitions—including a midcareer survey at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1995—and has received several awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Dawoud Bey earned his MFA from Yale University School of Art and is professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago. He has been featured in numerous exhibitions—including a midcareer survey at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1995—and has received several awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Klappentext Text by Jock Reynolds, Taro Nettleton. Interview by Carrie Mae Weems. Zusammenfassung For the past 15 years, Dawoud Bey has been making striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social and ethnic spectrum--and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures--he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that intentionally challenges teenage stereotypes. Bey spends two to three weeks in each school, taking formal portraits of individual students, each made in a classroom during one 45-minute period. At the start of the sitting, each subject writes a brief autobiographical statement. By turns poignant, funny or harrowing, these revealing words are an integral part of the project, and the subject's statement accompanies each photograph in the book. Together, the words and images in "Class Pictures" offer unusually respectful and perceptive portraits that establish Dawoud Bey as one of the best portraitists at work today.

Product details

• Authors: Dawoud Bey, Bey Dawoud, Taro Nettleton, Director Jock Reynolds, Jock Reynolds
• Assisted by: Dawoud Bey (Photographs)
• Publisher: APERTURE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9781597110433
• ISBN: 978-1-59711-043-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 1250 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Photographs: collections, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Individual photographers, United States of America, USA, Photographs: Portraits, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections