DAWOUD BEY (1953 ) Suite of 5 photographs from the Street P

Sale 2406 - Lot 174

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DAWOUD BEY (1953- )
Suite of 5 photographs from the Street Portrait series. Silver prints, each measuring 12 1/4x9 1/2 inches (31.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Bey's signature, title, the notation "Bklyn, NY," and date, in pencil, on verso. 1988 (one also dated 1990)

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A Girl With School Medals Joana One of the Girls From Next Door A Man Wearing an Adami Baseball Cap Poppye.

In 1988, Dawoud Bey began the Street Portrait series, making portraits in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he lived at the time. Using Polaroid Type P/N film, he was able to give an instant print to the subjects while keeping the instant negatives, which he would use later to make exhibition prints. Unlike his Harlem, USA photographs, these pictures are more directed and posed. It was Bey's intention to allow the subjects of the series to direct their gaze at the camera, and by extension, the viewer.