{"product_id":"two-american-projects","title":"Two American Projects","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo American Projects by Dawoud Bey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Dawoud Bey: An American Project, held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 15-May 25, 2020; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 27-October 18, 2020; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 20, 2020-April 4, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedium format hardcover in new condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-pages\"\u003e128 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-trim-size\"\u003e247 × 279 mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-trim-size\"\u003eSigned by Dawoud Bey on inside title page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWith a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey’s vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawoud 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, presented together here for the first time, he addresses African American history explicitly, with renderings both lyrical and immediate. In 2012 Bey created\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Birmingham Project\u003c\/em\u003e, a series of paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of the Ku Klux Klan’s bombing of Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the violent aftermath.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Coming Tenderly, Black\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a group of large-scale black-and-white landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated. The book is introduced by an essay exploring the series’ place within Bey’s wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate the works’ evocations of race, history, time, and place, addressing the particularities of and resonances between two series of photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dawoud Bey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57608337850750,"sku":null,"price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/files\/dawoud-bey_two-american-projects_cover.heic?v=1782381856","url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/en-us\/products\/two-american-projects","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}