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Street Portraits
Dawoud Bey, A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY, #
from the series Street Portraits, 1988.
Pigment print.
Courtesy the artist and Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago.
© Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey »

Street Portraits

Exhibition: 17 Nov 2024 – 11 May 2025

Tue 19 Nov 18:00

Denver Art Museum

100 W 14th Ave Pkwy
CO 80204 Denver

+1-720-8655000


www.denverartmuseum.org

Tue-Sun 10-17

Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits is the first standalone museum show to explore a transformational phase of the celebrated photographer and 2017 MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey's work. The show features 38 portraits he took between 1988 and 1991, when he collaborated with Black Americans of all ages whom he met on the streets of various American cities. He asked a cross section of people in these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self-presentation and performance in their urban environments.

Bey used a large format tripod-mounted camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative. Bey considers photography an ethical practice that requires collaboration with his subjects. As part of every encounter, he gave each person a small black-and-white Polaroid print as a way of reciprocating and returning something to the people who allowed him to make their portrait.

Street Portraits is organized by the community the photographs were taken in: Brooklyn; Washington, D.C.; Rochester; Amityville; and Harlem. Defying racial stereotypes, the resulting photographs reveal the Black subjects in all of their psychologically rich complexity, presenting themselves openly and intimately to the camera, the viewer, and the world.