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The Art World Is Reckoning With Calls for Social Justice Could Biennials Show Us How to Change With the Times?
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Take An Assiduous Look At Dawoud Bey s Gripping Portraits And Chilling Landscapes At The Whitney
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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.
A photographer looks deep into America s past
Dawoud Bey, A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY, 1988. Pigmented inkjet print (printed 2019), 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm); Frame: 41 1/8 x 50 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. Collection of the artist; courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. © Dawoud Bey.
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.- Before he became a photographer, Dawoud Bey trained as a jazz percussionist, looking to John Coltrane as a role model for melding craft with a commitment to social justice. As a teenager in the 1960s, Bey was finely attuned to the social and political upheavals of the civil rights movement, staging sit-ins and demonstrations with his high school classmates and joining the Black Panther Party, whose newspaper he sold on the weekends. By 1968, the struggle for racial equality was converging with demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and the early stages of womens
Dawoud Bey on his new show spanning 1970s street photography to poignant nocturnal landscapes
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