Dawoud Bey – Street Portraits Edition:Regular Edition cultural theorists

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in versions that are painted (on glass) or embroidered (by his mother) and the distinction between the copy and the original doesn’t interest him in the slightest

published to coincide with the exhibition The (Hemi)Cycle of Leaves and Paper at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts

Dawoud Bey – Street Portraits Edition:Regular Edition cultural theoristsFrom 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative, he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self presentation and performance in the streets of the urban environment. As part of