Dawoud Bey
A Girl Eating a Hotdog, 1991
Estimated Value: $4,000

Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches
Unframed
Signed, verso
Donated by the artist, courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery and Rena Bransten Gallery.

This piece is from Bey's seminal portrait project utilizing a large format 4x5 camera and Black and White, Type 55, Polaroid film in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bey photographed his neighborhood in Brooklyn, as well as Washington, D.C., Long Island, and Upstate, NY.

About the Artist:
Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey (1953- ) born in New York City, began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, USA,” that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had exhibitions worldwide, at institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. His photographs are in numerous collections in this country and abroad. The Walker Art Center organized a mid-career survey of his work, “Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995,” that traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Beginning in 2020, SFMOMA, the Whitney, and The High Museum are exhibiting “Dawoud Bey: An American Project,” a retrospective of works until now.

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.

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