Free Downloads Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
For the past 15 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 45-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.
Hardcover: 163 pages
Publisher: Aperture (September 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597110434
ISBN-13: 978-1597110433
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 0.9 x 11.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #221,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #195 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Children's Studies #235 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Portraits #402 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Individual Photographers
Earlier this year, I received an invitation to the Aperture Gallery in Manhattan to see an exhibition by Dawoud Bey. I was not familiar with his work, but I was intrigued by the photograph on the invitation, so I went. I was astounded by the larger-than-life portraits that filled the gallery. It was wonderful spending time studying these pictures and then reading the short bios that went with them.While I was there, I purchased this book based on the exhibit. Like all books that essentially reproduce art, it doesn't have the same impact as the exhibit itself. Something about the large scale of the photographs in the gallery adds something that can't be repeated in book form; however, looking at the pictures and reading the blurbs made it easier for me to take myself back to the gallery. And, even so, the pictures are so well done that they still have a powerful, if different, impact in this book.My only disappointment in this book was in the two forwards: one by Jock Reynolds and the other by Taro Nettleton. Though they both had insightful things to say about Bey's work, particularly earlier projects of his, they both felt the need to mention a negative critical review of Bey's work by Ken Johnson of the New York Times. I felt this to be unnecessary and distracting. Not that there's no place to counter a critics observations but in a book like this, it came across a defensive--as if the work cannot speak for itself and needs to be defended in advance.Still, apart from that, this book is wonderful. Creating portraits worth looking at is no easy task, particularly for photographers. Velazquez and Rembrandt were geniuses of portraiture but they had a different kind of skill and a flexibility that Bey does not have available to him when a subject sits in front of the lens. Still, he manages to capture something that, in his best work, I would like to hang next to a Rembrandt.
Dawoud Bey gives us an opportunity to look on the inside of our kids with their words and his eye. You can't help but be mesmerized by great portraits and the self accounts that these young adults share. Fantastic piece of modern American art.
I heard the author speak last year at Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh but unfortunately didn't have the book then for him to sign.I am using it my Digital Photography classes I teach in High School.
Brilliant photographs of a diverse section of American high school students accompanied by poignant personal essays. Heady stuff!
I saw this book described in Newsweek, and wanted to know more about the photographer and the ideas behind his work. Love this book! It's all about seeing beyond what you assume about other human beings, and coming face to face with the uniqueness of individuals. Hoping to use it as a resource/tool (plus the website, with actual recorded voice-overs) in classroom discussion about stereotypes. Book seemed brand new! Great discount/value.
When a book is published which includes both text and photos - the text usually overtakes the photos; this rare book with text and photos is not one of those usual books. This book's text does not overtake the photos; this speaks to the power of the photos. A must see - - (and a must read).
Love this photographer, love this work. Great book, and great service on getting it to me. One of the finest photographers working today. An inspiration!
Amazing book
Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures Uncensored Sex Pictures: Sex Photos of College Girls & College Sex Pictures (Full nudity sex entertainment pictures book for adults only 2) Photography: Complete Guide to Taking Stunning,Beautiful Digital Pictures (photography, stunning digital, great pictures, digital photography, portrait ... landscape photography, good pictures) Uncensored Adult Photo Book: Blonde Erotic Adult Nudes Photography : Nude Photography, XXX, Teens, Hardcore, Erotica, Uncensored Nude Pictures, Erotic Nude Pictures (Nudity Pictures Book 1) Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship (Working Class in American History) Pro Flash Manual: A Michael Willems Dutch Master Class Manual (The Michael Willems "Dutch Master Class" series Book 2) Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures Tornado Class A1: New Peppercorn Class A1, 2008 Onwards (Owners' Workshop Manual) A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Strategies for Employment Class and Collective Actions: Leading Lawyers on Addressing Trends in Wage and Hour Allegations and Defending Employers in Class Action Litigation (Inside the Minds) Deadly Class Volume 2: Kids of the Black Hole (Deadly Class Tp) PHOTOSHOP: Absolute Beginners Guide To Mastering Photoshop And Creating World Class Photos (Step by Step Pictures, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, Graphic Design) Hidden Pictures: Across America (Ultimate Hidden Pictures) Hidden Pictures: Under the Sea (Ultimate Hidden Pictures) Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids Adult Coloring Book: Your Totem Animal: 21 Gorgeous Wolves Pictures (Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Pictures Collection) (Volume 1) Photography: DSLR Photography Secrets and Tips to Taking Beautiful Digital Pictures (Photography, DSLR, cameras, digital photography, digital pictures, portrait photography, landscape photography) Sex Pictures: Sex Positions: How to Improve Your Sex Life with Creative Sex Positions and Techniques! (Sex Positions, Sex Pictures, Sex, Kama Sutra) Hot Erotic Adult Sex Pics (300+): Uncensored full nudity pictures of horny MILF women (4): naked photo book of sexy older girls having big boobs and hot ... books with sex pictures by WOW-FACTOR)
