Aperture holiday sale ends January 3!
Posted on | December 12, 2007 | 3 Comments
All Aperture books are currently 30% off! Here’s your change to buy one of the only books published by an African American photographer in the last few years. Seriously. And it’s a really terrific book.
Class Pictures Photographs by Dawoud Bey
Essays by Jock Reynolds and Taro Nettleton
Interview by Carrie Mae Weems
Regular Price $ 45.00
Your Price $ 31.50
Hardcover
70 four-color images
164 Pages
9.56″ X 11″
ISBN: 978-1-59711-043-3
Book Synopsis
For the past fifteen years, Dawoud Bey has been making striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum— and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that intentionally challenges teenage stereotypes.
Bey spends two to three weeks in each school, taking formal portraits of individual students, each made in a classroom during one forty-five-minute period. At the start of the sitting, each subject writes a brief autobiographical statement. By turns poignant, funny, or harrowing, these revealing words are an integral part of the project, and the subject’s statement accompanies each photograph in the book. Together, the words and images in Class Pictures offer unusually respectful and perceptive portraits that establish Dawoud Bey as one of the best portraitists at work today.
EXHIBTION SCHEDULE
Aperture Gallery
New York, New York
Friday, January 10–Thursday, February 28, 2008
Contemporary Art Museum
Houston, Texas
Friday, March 14, 2008-Sunday, May 11, 2008
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Greensboro, North Carolina
Sunday, June 29, 2008-Sunday, September 7, 2008
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December 12th, 2007 @ 2:03 pm
Hey
Sorry for spamming, but I really like your writings and wanted to ask you if we could exchange links? Please write me a comment in my blog (my everyday glamour) that has to do a bit with the post *lol* then I know that’s okay for you
Hope you’re okay,
Chililady from Austria
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
That’s a wonderful book. Dawoud Bey did a lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and spoke about the selection, process and narrative of his work. It really made his images come to life. I recommend it highly.
December 20th, 2007 @ 11:57 am
Hi Carla! I was lucky enough to hear your talk at the Here and Now conference at NYU. I would like to know if you could post the ( rather short) list of Black photography books ( featuring the work of Black photographers) on your blog and well as make the same strong points you made in your talk (If you haven’t already) I really enjoyed your talk and was struck by the information. I look forward to seeing your list posted…
thank-you!!!!
ABG