In Your Face: Portraits by Dawoud Bey

by Dawoud Bey, A.D. Coleman, Jock Reynolds

In his large-format color Polaroid portraits, Dawoud Bey aims "to make an unabashedly lush and romantic rendering of people who seldom receive that kind of attention." Some of his favorite subjects are streetwise African American teenagers for whom eye contact is a finely-judged art. They face the camera with a sort of edgy candor, half bravado, half suspicion, accentuated by the arrangement of the triples. This well-illustrated book is the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935640460
• ISBN13: 9780935640465
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Walker Art Center
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.1"