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CLOSING SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012
"I wanted the photograph to be my representation of the young people and their words to be their self representation."
--Dawoud Bey
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Challenging Stereotypes, One Photo at a Time
For fifteen years, Dawoud Bey created striking, large-scale color portraits of students at 17 high schools across the United States. Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey brings together 27 of these images depicting youths from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum. Intensely attentive to their poses and gestures, but also to the world in which they live, Bey has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that challenges popular stereotypes.
Class Pictures, organized by the Aperture Foundation, comes to Pittsburgh as the last stop in its national tour, which included the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, among others. This is the first solo exhibition in Pittsburgh by this Chicago-based, internationally-acclaimed artist.
The exhibition, which began at the Silver Eye Center for Photography on January 10, ends this Saturday, March 10th. Do not miss your chance to see these moving representations of youth from across the country.
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About the Artist Since 1992, Dawoud Bey has completed a number of collaborative projects working with young people and museums. These projects have involved teens, museums, and cultural institutions in a broad dialogue that creates an engaging space for art-making and aims at broadening the participation of various communities in these institutions. Bey, who received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1993, is currently a professor of photography at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2011 Lucie Award in Portraiture. He has been featured in exhibitions across the globe, including institutions in Los Angeles, Boston, Tokyo, New York, Atlanta, and Chicago. Location, Hours, and Free Admission Silver Eye is located on Pittsburgh's South Side at 1015 East Carson Street between 10th and 11th streets. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12noon to 6pm. Admission is free.
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Photo Credits (top to bottom, left to right): Omar (2005), Shalanta (2003), and Sarah (2005), Courtesy of the artist
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Silver Eye Center for Photography | 1015 East Carson Street | Pittsburgh | PA | 15203
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