While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen. - Dawoud Bey
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
- Dawoud Bey
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture. - Dawoud Bey
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye … - Dawoud Bey
If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye …
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek … - Dawoud Bey
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek …
Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the … - Dawoud Bey
Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the …
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly… - Dawoud Bey
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly…
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with… - Dawoud Bey
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with…
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