Seeing Deeply (Signed First Edition)

BEY, Dawoud, Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, et al.

ISBN 10: 1477317198 / ISBN 13: 9781477317198

Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2018

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A forty year retrospective monograph on the photographs of African American photographer who was a MacArthur Fellowship winner. Features an introduction by Sarah Lewis, and text contributions by Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, Jacqueline Terrassa, Rebecca Walker, Maurice Berger, Leigh Raiford, and Bey as well. Includes numerous black and white and color images, a chronology, and a list of plates. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Bey on the half title page. A lovely copy of the best book on Bey. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

Seller Inventory # 211828

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seeing Deeply (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477317198
• ISBN 13: 9781477317198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 8.75 pounds
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Winner, Lucie Photo Book Prize / Photography Book of the Year, 2019

Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” Dawoud Bey has created a body of photography that masterfully portrays the contemporary American experience on its own terms and in all of its diversity.

Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply offers a forty-year retrospective of the celebrated photographer’s work, from his early street photography in Harlem to his current images of Harlem gentrification. Photographs from all of Bey’s major projects are presented in chronological sequence, allowing viewers to see how the collective body of portraits and recent landscapes create an unparalleled historical representation of various communities in the United States. Leading curators and critics—Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, Jacqueline Terrassa, Rebecca Walker, Maurice Berger, and Leigh Raiford—introduce each series of images.

Revealing Bey as the natural heir of such renowned photographers as Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee, Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply demonstrates how one man’s search for community can produce a stunning portrait of our common humanity.

About the Author

Dawoud Bey’s work is held by major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to the MacArthur fellowship, Bey’s honors include the United States Artists Guthman Fellowship, 2015; the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, 2002; and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1991. He is Professor of Art and a former Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago.