young black girl with large eyes, with her hair in braids, seated with her arms on her widely spread knees, wearing a striped button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves; another girl wearing a patterned shirt at left in background

%C2%A9 Dawoud Bey

Sunshine Bracey and a Friend, Brooklyn, NY, 1990

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Dawoud Bey has devoted his career to, in his own words, “the human subject.” These sensitive portraits of five young people—after a religious service, on the steps outside their homes, and at work—reflect Bey’s ability to gain their trust and work in partnership with them. At the same time, these portraits show his longstanding effort to address a larger cultural tendency to dismiss the lives and experiences of young people, especially children of color. Bey’s monumental portraits are a powerful visual rebuttal to spaces, like museums, that have historically excluded or discouraged the presence of Black people.

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Title
Sunshine Bracey and a Friend, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Life
born 1953
Role
Photographer
Accession Number
2019.28.4
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young black girl with large eyes, with her hair in braids, seated with her arms on her widely spread knees, wearing a striped button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves; another girl wearing a patterned shirt at left in background

© Dawoud Bey

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