Aperture holiday sale ends January 3!

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