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Books by Dawoud Bey






Detroit(1st Edition)
Unbroken Down
by Dave Jordano, Nancy Watson Barr, Dawoud Bey, Dr Sharon Zukin, Sharon Zukon
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Powerhouse Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-779-1, ISBN: 1-57687-779-5

"Dave Jordano returned to his hometown of Detroit to document the people who still live in what has become one of the country's most economically challenging cities. Against a backdrop of mass abandonment through years of white flight, unemployment hovering at almost three times the national average, city services cut to the bone, a real estate collapse of massive proportions, and ultimately filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S ..."






LaToya Ruby Frazier(Updated)
The Notion of Family
by Dennis C. Dickerson, Laura Wexler, Dawoud Bey, Latoya Ruby Frazier
Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2016 by Aperture
ISBN-13: 978-1-59711-381-6, ISBN: 1-59711-381-6

"Now available in a paperback edition, LaToya Ruby Frazier s award-winning first book, "The Notion of Family," offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political an intervention in the historie ..."






Dawoud Bey(1st Edition)
Picturing People
by Arthur Coleman Danto, Dawoud Bey, Julie Bey Bernson, Susanne Ghez, Hamza Walker
Hardcover, 115 Pages, Published 2012 by The Renaissance Society At The University Of Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-0-941548-59-5, ISBN: 0-941548-59-7

"Since 1975, photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture as a means for reflecting social circumstances. Ranging from street encounters to studio portraits, Bey has investigated numerous photographic methods to find increased engagement with his subjects. The Renaissance Society exhibition this catalogue accompanies (May 13 - July 13, 2012) included selections from Bey's work span ..."






Dawoud Bey(Illustrated)
Class Pictures
by Taro Nettleton, Director Jock Reynolds, Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, Carrie Mae Weeks, Jock Reynolds
Hardcover, 163 Pages, Published 2007 by Aperture
ISBN-13: 978-1-59711-043-3, ISBN: 1-59711-043-4

"For the past fifteen 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 form ..."






Dawoud Bey(Illustrated)
Two American Projects
by Corey Keller, Elisabeth Sherman, Steven Nelson, Torkwase Dyson, Imani Perry, Claudia Rankine, Dawoud Bey
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24850-0, ISBN: 0-300-24850-4

"With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey’s vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has also found inspiration in the past, and in two recent series, pre ..."






Dawoud Bey(1st Edition)
Seeing Deeply
by Dawoud Bey, Hilton Als, Photography Dawoud Bey
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-1719-8, ISBN: 1-4773-1719-8

"Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” Dawoud Bey has created a body of photography that masterfully portrays the contemporary American experience on its own terms and in all of its diversity.Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply offers a forty-year retrospective of the celebrated photographer’s work, from his early street photography in Harlem to his current images of Harlem gentrification. Photographs from all of Bey’s major pro ..."






The James Vanderzee Studio
by Dawoud Bey, Colin Westerbeck, James Vanderzee
Paperback, 36 Pages, Published 2004 by The Art Institute Of Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-0-86559-210-0, ISBN: 0-86559-210-1

"From 1916 until 1969, James VanDerZee operated a portrait studio at various addresses in Harlem. In his heyday, from the 20s to the 40s, he took pictures of prominent Harlem figures like Marcus Garvey, the preacher Daddy Grace and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. But in the latter part of his career, he spent more of his time on a mail-order business re-touching and restoring other people's old photographs. The same year that he closed his last ..."






Dawoud Bey
Elegy [Hardcover] Oliver, Valerie Cassel; Bey, Dawoud; Brooks, LeRonn P.; Perry, Imani and Sharpe, Christina
by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Dawoud Bey
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2023 by Aperture
ISBN-13: 978-1-59711-564-3, ISBN: 1-59711-564-9

"By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements, Bey doesn't merely evoke history, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences."






Jordan Casteel
Within Reach
by Jordan Casteel, Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, Amanda Hunt, Thelma Golden, Massimiliano Gioni
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2020 by New Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-915557-23-3, ISBN: 0-915557-23-1

"Published for Jordan Casteel’s major New Museum show, Within Reach surveys her paintings that explore the nuances of Black subjectivityIn her large-scale oil paintings, New York–based artist Jordan Casteel (born 1989) takes up questions of Black subjectivity and representation by examining the gestures, spaces and forms of nonverbal communication that underpin portraiture. “There is a certain amount of mindfulness that it requires to sl ..."






The Birmingham Project(1st Edition)
by Dawoud Bey, Ron Platt
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2013 by Birmingham Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-1-934774-11-3, ISBN: 1-934774-11-1






American Character
A Photographic Journey. Foreward By Tom Brokaw
by Dawoud Bey
196 Pages, Published 2009 by Chronicle Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8118-6902-7, ISBN: 0-8118-6902-4






Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities(1st Edition)
The Photography Workshop Series
by Dawoud Bey, Brian Ulrich
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by Aperture
ISBN-13: 978-1-59711-337-3, ISBN: 1-59711-337-9

"In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography―offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. In this book, Dawoud Bey―well-known for his stri ..."






Ground floor
a biennial exhibition of new art from Chicago. August 19, 2012 - November 11, 2012
by Lorenz, Kate & Dawoud Bey
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2012 by Hyde Park Art Center
ISBN-13: 978-0-9778084-9-6, ISBN: 0-9778084-9-1






Kelli Connell(85th Edition)
Double Life
by Susan Bright, Contributor-Dawoud Bey, Kelli Connell, Sol Susan Bright
Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by Decode Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793373-9-0, ISBN: 0-9793373-9-9

"The portraits of Kelli Connell (born 1974) appear to document a relationship between two women. Their idiom looks familiar: a young couple caught up in everyday moments of pleasure and reflection--a picnic in the park, playing pool in a bar, taking a bubble bath together. The first flicker of unease comes as soon as the viewer registers the similarity of the two subjects, who seem to be twins--and incestuous twins at that. In fact, Conn ..."






Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems
In Dialogue Platt, Ron; Bey, Dawoud; Friis-Hansen, Dana; Weems, Carrie Mae and Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
by Dawoud Bey, Ron Platt, Carrie Mae Weems, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kinshasha Holman Conwill
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2022 by Delmonico Books May 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1-63681-045-4, ISBN: 1-63681-045-4






Dawoud Bey(1st Edition)
Harlem, U.S.A. (Art Institute of Chicago)
by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Dawoud Bey
Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2012 by Art Institute Of Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18126-5, ISBN: 0-300-18126-4

"In 1979, when African-American photographer Dawoud Bey showed twenty-five photographs at the Studio Museum in Harlem under the heading "Harlem U.S.A.," the exhibition offered a young artist's vision of a moment in the neighborhood's life. Published here as a complete set for the first time, "Dawoud Bey: Harlem U.S.A." also includes five previously unpublished photographs from the same period. Bey's vintage images are given new context i ..."






STREET PORTRAITS.
by Dawoud. Bey
Published 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-913620-10-3, ISBN: 1-913620-10-7

"From 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities."






Portraits
by Dawoud Bey
Published by Walker Art Center
ISBN-13: 978-1-199-56602-7, ISBN: 1-199-56602-0






Vision & Justice
Aperture 223 (Aperture Magazine)
by Sarah Lewis, Dawoud Bey, Teju Cole, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Michael Famighetti, Brendan Wattenberg
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Aperture
ISBN-13: 978-1-59711-410-3, ISBN: 1-59711-410-3

"The Magazine of Photography and Ideas. As the United States navigates a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism, Aperture magazine releases “Vision & Justice,” a special issue guest edited by Sarah Lewis, the distinguished author and art historian, addressing the role of photography in the African American experience. “Vision & Justice” includes a wide span of photographic projec ..."






Vision & Justice(1st Edition)
Aperture 223 (Aperture Magazine)
by Sarah Lewis, Michael Famighetti, Dawoud Bey, Teju Cole, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Aperture
ISBN-13: 978-1-59711-365-6, ISBN: 1-59711-365-4

"The Magazine of Photography and Ideas. As the United States navigates a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism, Aperture magazine releases “Vision & Justice,” a special issue guest edited by Sarah Lewis, the distinguished author and art historian, addressing the role of photography in the African American experience. “Vision & Justice” includes a wide span of photographic projec ..."



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