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Dawoud Bey: Perspectives 160: Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey: Perspectives 160: Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey
Library Shelf Location 18.BEY
Publication Date 2008
Description The 160th installment in its Perspectives series, Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey, was comprised of large-scale portraits of American teenagers that refute false stereotypes and reveal the individual strengths of this age group. For the exhibition, Bey photographed young adults from all parts of the economic, racial, and ethnic spectrum in both public and private high schools in Detroit; Chicago; Lawrence and Andover, Mass.; Orlando; San Francisco; and New York City. Bey spent three to four weeks in each school, taking formal portraits of individual students, each made in a classroom or other school setting during one forty-five-minute period. The exhibition was organized by organized by the Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts. Includes an essay by Valerie Cassel Oliver; documentation of the artist’s career.
ISBN 9781933619118
Quantity 1
Pages 15
Author Valerie Cassel Oliver
Format Paperback
Publishers Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Aperture Foundation
Related Artist Dawoud Bey
Category Photography
Keyword Portraits
Artist's Nationality American (USA)
Language English

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