Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey
Born
David Edward Smikle

(1953-11-25) November 25, 1953 (age 70)[1]
Queens, New York, U.S.
EducationBFA, Empire State College; MFA, Yale University School of Art
Known forPhotography
Notable workHarlem, USA
Class Pictures
The Birmingham Project
Night Coming Tenderly, Black
ChildrenRamon Smikle
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship

Dawoud Bey (born David Edward Smikle; November 25, 1953) is an American photographer, artist and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community, and other often marginalized subjects.[2] In 2017, Bey was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation[3] and is regarded as one of the "most innovative and influential photographers of his generation".[4]

Bey is a professor and Distinguished Artist at Columbia College Chicago.[5] According to The New York Times, "in the seemingly simple gesture of photographing Black subjects in everyday life, [Bey, an African American,] helped to introduce Blackness in the context of fine art long before it was trendy, or even accepted"[6]

  1. ^ "Dawoud Bey". TheHistoryMakers. TheHistoryMakers. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  2. ^ "Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  3. ^ "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.
  4. ^ "Dawoud Bey: An American Project". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  5. ^ "Dawoud Bey - Faculty". Columbia College Chicago. Archived from the original on 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  6. ^ Charlton, Lauretta (2020-10-19). "Dawoud Bey, Chronicler of Black American Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-14.