Street Portraits by Bey Dawoud Estera Knaap Combining carefully crafted large-format photographs

Combining carefully crafted large-format photographs with more impulsive documentary photographs

are beautiful

The poetics of documentary

in a variety of shades and finishes

a way to connect with people or solitary delight

Street Portraits by Bey Dawoud Estera Knaap Combining carefully crafted large-format photographsSigned copies From 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative, he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self presentation and performance in the streets of the urban