Dawoud Bey

By Dawoud Bey, Matthew S. Witkovsky, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Subjects: Art criticism, Exhibitions, African Americans, Harlem (new york, n.y.), social conditions, Portrait photography, PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Art, american, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, Pictorial works, Portraits, Harlem (new york, n.y.), description and travel, Harlem (new york, n.y.), social life and customs

Description: "In 1979, when African-American photographer Dawoud Bey showed twenty-five photographs at the Studio Museum in Harlem under the heading Harlem U.S.A., the exhibition offered a young artist's vision of a moment in the neighborhood's life. Published here as a complete set for the first time, Dawoud Bey: Harlem U.S.A. also includes five previously unpublished photographs from the same period. Bey's vintage images are given new context in an essay by emerging African-American writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, who undertook her own fascinating study of Harlem in 2011.Bey, who grew up in Queens with family roots in Harlem, has become one of most widely acclaimed portraitists on the contemporary scene. This handsome book, with faithful duotone reproductions, provides a wonderful opportunity to revisit a classic portfolio of images that still resonates in today's culture"--