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Artists›Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey

1953

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Dawoud Bey makes large-scale photographic portraits of American adolescents and marginalized subjects positioned within their communities and urban environments. His work combines the immediacy of street photography with an unflinching attention to the social and psychological complexity of his subjects. A MacArthur Fellow since 2017, Bey has developed a practice that treats portraiture as a vehicle for documenting and contesting social invisibility. His photographs are marked by intimate scale and formal precision, creating a visual record that centers voices often excluded from mainstream representation.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Evergreen

2021 · Three-channel video installation, color, sound, 10:58 min.

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #17 (Forest)

2017 · Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 48 × 59 in. (121.9 × 149.9 cm) Image: 44 × 54 5/8 in. (111.8 × 138.7 cm) Mount: 48 × 59 × 1/8 in. (121.9 × 149.9 × 0.3 cm) Frame: 48 1/2 × 59 1/2 × 2 in. (123.2 × 151.1 × 5.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #21 (Farmhouse and Picket Fence II)

2017 · Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 48 × 59 in. (121.9 × 149.9 cm) Image: 44 × 54 5/8 in. (111.8 × 138.7 cm) Mount: 48 × 59 × 1/8 in. (121.9 × 149.9 × 0.3 cm) Frame: 48 1/2 × 59 1/2 × 2 in. (123.2 × 151.1 × 5.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #1 (Picket Fence and Farmhouse)

2017 · Gelatin silver print

111.8 × 139.7 cm (44 × 55 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Untitled #5 (Tree Trunk, Picket Fence and House)

2017 · gelatin silver print

Image: 121.9 x 149.9 cm (48 x 59 in.); Framed: 122.7 x 151.1 x 5.1 cm (48 5/16 x 59 1/2 x 2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)

2017 · gelatin silver print

Image: 121.9 x 149.9 cm (48 x 59 in.); Framed: 122.7 x 151.1 x 5.1 cm (48 5/16 x 59 1/2 x 2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Braxton McKinney and Lavon Thomas

2012 · Inkjet prints (diptych), from "The Birmingham Project"

Each image: 91 × 71 cm (35 7/8 × 28 in.); Each paper: 100.1 × 80.5 cm (39 7/16 × 31 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Miguel

1999 · Polaroid

Image: 61 x 52.9 cm (24 x 20 13/16 in.); Image with border: 68.8 x 55.2 cm (27 1/16 x 21 3/4 in.); Paper: 73.4 x 55.8 cm (28 7/8 x 21 15/16 in.); Mounted: 74.4 x 56.6 cm (29 5/16 x 22 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Yale School of Art

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Benjamin N. Cardozo High School

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