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Photo credit: Michal Raz-Russo<\/h4>\n
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Dawoud Bey’s photography spread in the book<\/h4>\n‘Soul of a Nation : Art in the Age of Black Power’<\/h4>\n
Dawoud Bey (1953- ) born in New York City, began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, \u201cHarlem, USA,\u201d 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. \u00a0His photographs are in numerous collections in this country and abroad. The Walker Art Center organized a mid-career survey of his work, \u201cDawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995,\u201d that traveled throughout the United States and Europe. \u00a0A major publication of the same title was also published in conjunction with that exhibition. Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey ,<\/em> was published by Aperture in 2007. Aperture also traveled that exhibition to various museums around the country through 2011. Harlem, USA<\/em> 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\u2019s critical writings on photography and contemporary art have appeared in numerous publications and exhibition catalogs.<\/p>\nCheck out this previous conversation we had with Dawoud Bey, from 2 years ago.\u00a0Dawoud Bey talks about the Harlem on my Mind Exhibition of 1969.<\/h4>\n