Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey is a widely celebrated photographer and educator whose work engages with the Black presence in America, both past and present. Predominantly working in portraiture for the first several decades of his career, more recent projects utilize landscape to open a dialog about intentionally hidden American stories, exploring how places can hold memory.

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Selected Work

Dawoud Bey – Stony the Road: Untitled (Curve in the Trail)
2022, gelatin silver photograph, 48 x 49 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – Stony the Road: Untitled (Tangled Branches)
2022, gelatin silver photograph, 48 x 49 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – In This Here Place: Cabin and Benches
2019, gelatin silver print 48 x 59 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – In This Here Place: Conjoined Trees and Field,
2019, gelatin silver print 40 x 50 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #22 (Farmhouse)
2017, gelatin silver print, 44 x 55 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #3 (Cozad-Bates House)
2017, gelatin silver print, 44 x 55 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – The Birmingham Project: Taylor Falls and Deborah Hackworth
2012, archival pigment prints mounted to dibond, 40 x 64 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – The Birmingham Project: Fred Stewart II and Tyler Collins
2012, archival pigment prints mounted to dibond, 40 x 64 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – Harlem, U.S.A.: Mr. Moore’s Bar-B-Que, 125th Street
1976 (printed 2011), gelatin silver photograph, 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches, edition of 10 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.