BAIA Talks:
Recapping Soul of A Nation with Dawoud Bey
Recapping an extraordinary weekend at the Soul of a Nation opening with a brief interview with Dawoud Bey, reflecting on conversations had & the images he currently has on display for the exhibition.
Photo credit: Michal Raz-Russo
Dawoud Bey’s photography spread in the book
‘Soul of a Nation : Art in the Age of Black Power’
Dawoud Bey (1953- ) born in New York City, began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, USA,” that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had exhibitions worldwide, at institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. His photographs are in numerous collections in this country and abroad. The Walker Art Center organized a mid-career survey of his work, “Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995,” that traveled throughout the United States and Europe. A major publication of the same title was also published in conjunction with that exhibition. Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey , was published by Aperture in 2007. Aperture also traveled that exhibition to various museums around the country through 2011. Harlem, USA was published by Yale University Press in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012, where the work was exhibited in its entirety for the first time since it was shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. Bey’s critical writings on photography and contemporary art have appeared in numerous publications and exhibition catalogs.
Check out this previous conversation we had with Dawoud Bey, from 2 years ago. Dawoud Bey talks about the Harlem on my Mind Exhibition of 1969.
Buy ‘Soul of a Nation : Art in the Age of Black Power’ here : http://bit.ly/2zPcYrb
