Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey , born as David Edward Smikle (* 1953 in Jamaica, Queens , New York City , USA ) is an American photographer who, through his large-format color photos of adolescents and people who are very often marginalized, has been known since the 1970s got known.
Life
Smikle changed its name to Dawoud Bey in the early 1970s. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in New York City in 1977/1978 . In 1990, he joined the professional photography with the examination as Bachelor of Fine Arts at Empire State College of the State University of New York from. In 1993 he gained at the School of Art of Yale University the degree of MFA ( Master of Fine Arts ).
Bey now lives in Chicago , Illinois and teaches at Columbia College Chicago .
Style and themes
From the start, Bey worked in environments that included himself as an African-American . This is how his five-year project Harlem USA came into being from 1975 to 1979. The Chicago Project followed in 2003 and the Detroit Portraits in 2004 . During a scholarship stay at the Addison Gallery of American Arts in Andover, Massachusetts , he photographed students from various public and private schools to determine any differences between them. Further stays at Addison and elsewhere resulted in his exhibition Class Pictures and a publication by the Aperture Foundation .
Awards and honors
- 1983: Scholarship from Creative Artists Public Service , New York.
- 1986: Scholarship from the New York Foundation for the Arts .
- 1991: Scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts .
- 2002: Guggenheim grant .
- 2015: Elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .
- 2017: MacArthur Fellowship
Exhibitions
- 1995: Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995 , Walker Art Center , Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA.
- 1998: Dawoud Bey , Queens Museum of Art , Queens, New York City.
- 2003: Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project , Smart Museum of Art . Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 2004: Dawoud Bey: Detroit Portraits , Detroit Institute of Arts .
- 2004: Essai in Colin Westerbeeck: The James Van Der Zee Studio , The Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago 2004, ISBN 0-86559-210-1 .
- 2007: Class Pictures , Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, USA. Then: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Indianapolis Museum of Art and Milwaukee Art Museum .
- 2013: Dawoud Bey, Picturing People. Career Survey of Renowned Photographer , Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami) , North Miami , Florida , USA.
Publications
- 1995: AD Coleman (Ed.): Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995 , Walker Art Center, Milwaukee, Minnesota, USA.
- 2003: Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project , Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 2007: Class Pictures. Photographs by Dawoud Bey , Aperture, New York City, USA.
- 2012: Matthew S. Witkovaky (Ed.): Dawoud Bey: Harlem, USA . The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, ISBN 978-0-300181265 .
literature
- Ron Platt: Dawoud Bey. The Birmingham Project , Birmingham Museum of Art , 2012.
Web links
- Website of the photographer (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Academicians Elected in 2015 ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bey, Dawoud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smikle, David Edward (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jamaica, Queens , New York City, |