Dawoud Bey, a professor at Columbia College in Chicago, is considered a luminary of American photography
DAWOUD BEY was 15 when his godmother gave him his first camera in 1968. The story might have ended there, had he not ventured to the Museum of Modern Art a year later, where a controversial photography exhibit called “Harlem on My Mind” was on display. His intention was to protest against the scarcity of African-American artists in a show about their own community. But the picket was not happening that day, so he went in.
“Part of my agenda with this work is to transform the space of the museum by bringing this [African-American] community into that space, and make it a place where they belong,” he told a sell-out audience at SFMoMA. Starting with his first, 35mm black-and-white portraits in the 1970s, he said, he wanted to “reshape the world, one person at a time”.
A profound shift occurred in his art in the past decade, when he became interested in photographing not just the present, but the weight of the past and the passage of time. In the “Harlem Redux” series, which Mr Bey began in 2014, he returns to the streets he lovingly captured 40 years before. Now they are shown as almost empty of life, cluttered with the barriers and building sites of gentrification.
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