Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Since the beginning of his career in the 1970s, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has used his camera to create poignant meditations on visibility, race, place, and American history. Dawoud Bey: An American Project, on view now in the Wieland Pavilion Lower Level, traces these through lines across the forty-five years of Bey’s career and his profound engagement with the young Black subject and African American history.
In this short film, Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellows, Kayla Gaskin (Emory University, Class of 2020) and Taylor Roberts (Oglethorpe University, Class of 2021) discuss Bey’s Four Children at Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY. Dawoud Bey: An American Project is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and is on view at the High through March 14, 2021.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
Since the beginning of his career in the 1970s, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has used his camera to create poignant meditations on visibility, race, place, and American history. Dawoud Bey: An American Project, on view now in the Wieland Pavilion Lower Level, traces these through lines across the forty-five years of Bey’s career and his profound engagement with the young Black subject and African American history.
In this short film, Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellows, Kayla Gaskin (Emory University, Class of 2020) and Taylor Roberts (Oglethorpe University, Class of 2021) discuss Bey’s Four Children at Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY. Dawoud Bey: An American Project is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and is on view at the High through March 14, 2021.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
