Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597110434 ISBN 13: 9781597110433

Publisher: Aperture, 2007

Synopsis

For the past fifteen 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 gestureshe 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 forty-five-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 subjects 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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. Jock Reynolds is the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and is the author of Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth (Yale). Taro Nettleton is a visual culture critic based in Tokyo. He is Adjunct Professor at Temple University Japan.

Synopsis:

Accompanied by essays on the photographer's work and an interview, presents sixty color portraits taken from 2003 to 2006 of students at high schools across the United States who are from different economic, social, and ethnic groups, along with a brief autobiographical statement by each student written at beginning of the sitting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1597110434
• ISBN 13: 9781597110433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164