Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project

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by Dawoud Bey, Dan Collison, Elizabeth Meister, Stephanie Smith Jacqueline Terrassa

University of Chicago Press

Due/Published October 2003, 96 pages, paper

ISBN 0935573380

s it possible for a photographic portrait to reveal anything "real" about its subject? As part of a twelve-week residency at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, photographer Dawoud Bey asked this question of twelve teenagers from nearby schools. This fully illustrated book unpacks the process of Bey's ambitious residency and its products: a major exhibition pairing Bey's portraits of each student with audio portraits--included here on CD--created by award-winning radio producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, as well as an exhibition of portraits curated by the students themselves.

Distributed by University of Chicago Press for the The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art