PUBLISHER
Aperture

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11 in. / 164 pgs / 70 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/1/2007
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PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781597110433 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $55.00

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Andover, MA.
Addison Gallery of American Art
09/04/07-12/30/07

New York
Aperture Gallery, 01/10/08-02/28/08

Greensboro, N.C
Weatherspoon Art Museum, 06/29/08-09/07/08

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Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures

Text by Jock Reynolds, Taro Nettleton. Interview by Carrie Mae Weems.

For the past 15 years, Dawoud Bey has been making striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social and ethnic spectrum--and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures--he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that intentionally challenges teenage stereotypes.
Bey spends two to three weeks in each school, taking formal portraits of individual students, each made in a classroom during one 45-minute period. At the start of the sitting, each subject writes a brief autobiographical statement. By turns poignant, funny or harrowing, these revealing words are an integral part of the project, and the subject's statement accompanies each photograph in the book. Together, the words and images in Class Pictures offer unusually respectful and perceptive portraits that establish Dawoud Bey as one of the best portraitists at work today.