- Yale School of Art
- Empire State College
- Benjamin N. Cardozo High School
Dawoud Bey creates portraits and landscape-based projects that examine Black life, history and public space. From Harlem street portraits to works on the Underground Railroad, he combines formal portraiture with sustained historical attention.
Photography
Artist Films
Narrative Materiality: Dawoud Bey and Torkwase Dyson In Conversation
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Reimagining History: Dawoud Bey in conversation with Jason Moran and Sarah M. Broom
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Dawoud Bey in Conversation with Rebecca Walker
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Major Works
- 1975–79Harlem, U.S.A.
- 1988–91Street Portraits
- 2002–06Class Pictures
- 2012The Birmingham Project
- 2017Night Coming Tenderly, Black
- 2017The Underground Railroad Project
- 2014–17Harlem Redux
- 1976A Boy in Front of the Loew’s 125th Street Movie Theater
- 2003Embracing Eatonville
- 2021In This Here Place
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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