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Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits | Denver Art Museum


  • Denver Art Museum 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway Denver, CO, 80204 United States (map)

Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits is the first standalone museum show to explore a transformational phase of the celebrated photographer and 2017 MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey's work. The show features 37 portraits he made between 1988 and 1991, when he collaborated with Black Americans of all ages whom he met on the streets of various American cities. He asked a cross section of people in these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self-presentation and performance in their urban environments.