Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities: The Photography Workshop Series

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The wisdom of a celebrated photographer and teacher, now available in book form A must-have guide for making meaningful and expressive portraits The latest title in the best-selling Aperture "workshop in a book" series Additional Comp Titles Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A. 9780300181265, $24.00 USD (Art Institute of Chicago, 2012) Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures. 9781597110433, $45.00 USD (Aperture, 2007)

Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs called Harlem, USA, which was later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, organized a mid-career survey of his work, Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995. A major publication of the same title was also published in conjunction with that exhibition. Class Pictures was published by Aperture in 2007.

"With his award-winning portraiture, Dawoud Bey captures the humanity of the people he photographs as well as the vibrancy of the communities where they live." -PDN "Perhaps his greatest power as an artist lies here. In his ability to make work that changes the world without straying from complete normality."-Ryan White, i-D