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This photographer surpasses his medium » Borneo Bulletin Online


May 10, 2021
Sebastian Smee
THE WASHINGTON POST – Art love can be founded on soul-shaking epiphanies or on little “A-ha!” moments. I remember, for instance, learning that many of the gloomy photographs in
Paris by Night, Brassai’s classic vision of 1930s Paris nightlife, were taken during the day.
“A-ha!” I thought. You can do that?!
Well, yes, you can. You’re an artist. You’re playing with chemicals in a darkroom. You can do whatever you like.
Night Coming Tenderly, Black, Dawoud Bey’s haunting 2017 series of nighttime landscape photographs, named for a line in a poem by Langston Hughes, also were taken during the day. Instead of fabricating Paris’ seedy glamour, Bey’s photographs imagine nighttime scenes experienced by fugitive enslaved people on the Underground Railroad. ....

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