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The Artist Project: Dawoud Bey

Dec 7, 2015 3 MINUTES
"His deeper contribution was as an African American artist who took that piece of himself out into the world and brought that into his work."

Dawoud Bey reflects on the photographs of Roy DeCarava in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Dawoud Bey, born in 1953, is an American photographer renowned for his large-scale portraits.

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Gelatin silver print; 5 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. (15.1 × 22.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2013 (2013.112) © Dawoud Bey

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