Dawoud Bey Two Girls at Lady D’s, Harlem, 1976:
“I spent five years in the mid-to-late 1970s making photographs in Harlem, New York. It was the first project I undertook at the beginning of my career. I was led back there by my family’s history in the neighborhood: my mother and father had met in a church in Harlem and eventually got married. When I was born several years later, they moved to Queens, to a house with a front yard and backyard, something more spacious than the Harlem apartment they had in Sugar Hill. But we continued to visit the neighborhood, as various friends and family still lived there. In 1975 I decided to ‘return’ to the community where I had never lived, but had a deep connection to, to make photographs. I encountered these two young girls one afternoon on Seventh Avenue near West 138th Street. When I asked if I could make a picture of them in front of this establishment, they joyfully struck an exuberant pose for me, full of all of the energy and expressiveness of youth.” —Dawoud Bey

Archival inkjet print
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Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
 including boarders. Image size 6.3 x 9.4 inches
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Signed and numbered from edition of 70 and 5 Artist’s Proofs
 by the artist to the affixed label on reverse.
Excellent overall condition.
Published by Aperture Foundation NY. Printed by Laumont Editions in New York.

Literature/References:
Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities, a volume of The Photography Workshop Series, published by Aperture in 2019.

Offered by Lot 180 Gallery New York