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Loading... Dawoud Bey: Class Picturesby Jock Reynolds
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The photos in this book are bold and not retouched. The capture a moment in time for these teens in schools from exclusive to hard-up. Each teen writes a biograhical vignette that accompanies each photograph and they are as varied as the students. Simply looking at the pictures will not tell you who is in Phillips Academy or the public school in Boston. This book resonated with the teens in my library adviory group because their were kids that looked and sounded like them and their friends. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)779.2The arts Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography Photographic images Human figures and their partsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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