DAWOUD BEY – AN AMERICAN PROJECT
2020-03-16Since the beginning of his career, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has used his camera to depict communities and histories that have largely remained underrepresented or even unseen. This full-scale retrospective highlights the artist’s commitment over the course of his four-decade career to portraying the black subject and African-American history in a manner that is at once direct and poetic, and immediate and symbolic. The exhibition includes his tender and perceptive early portraits of Harlem residents, large-scale color Polaroids, and a series of collaborative word and image portraits of high school students, among others.
Opposite – Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY, from the Series Harlem U.S.A., 1978
Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2020
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco
CA 94103
