Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cassel Oliver, Valerie
2. Brooks, LeRonn P.
3. Perry, Imani, 1972-
4. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
5. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution

Description

1. 176 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 x 30 cm

Summary

1. "Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history. Elegy brings together Bey's three landscape series to date--Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017); In This Here Place (2021); and Stoney the Road (2023)--elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States. Bey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia, where Africans were marched onto auction blocks; to the plantations of Louisiana, where they labored; and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, where fugitives sought self-emancipation. Essays by the exhibition's curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and scholars LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry, and Christina Sharpe illuminate the work. By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements, Bey doesn't merely evoke history, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences"--

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections (2023)

Alternative title

1. Works.

Subject

1. Slave trade
2. Landscape photography
3. Photography, Artistic
4. Black-and-white photography
5. Interviews
6. Photobooks
7. History
8. 2000-2099
9. Black author
10. Exhibition catalogs
11. United States
12. Photography, Artistic > 21st century > Exhibitions
13. Black-and-white photography > 21st century > Exhibitions
14. Slave trade > United States > History > Exhibitions
15. Landscape photography > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
16. Bey, Dawoud, 1953- > Interviews
17. Bey, Dawoud, 1953- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Photobooks.
3. History.
4. Interviews.

Contents

1. An American elegy / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- A river runs through us / Imani Perry -- Stony the road -- 350,000 -- In this place / Leronn P. Brooks -- In this here place -- Evergreen -- Dear Dawoud / Christina Sharpe -- Night coming tenderly, Black -- Liminal spaces: A conversation between Valerie Cassel Oliver and Dawoud Bey

Call number

1. Sc+ G 24-89

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-169).

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 18, 2023-February 25, 2024.

Author

1. Bey, Dawoud, 1953- photographer, artist, interviewee.

Title

1. Elegy / Dawoud Bey ; Valerie Cassel Oliver with LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry, and Christina Sharpe.

Publisher

1. Richmond, Virginia : VMFA ; New York, NY : Aperture, 2023.

Manufacturer

1. Richmond, Virginia : Printed by Worth Higgins

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First Aperture edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Creator/contributor characteristics

1. Americans
2. African Americans

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-169).

Exhibitions

1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 18, 2023-February 25, 2024.

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Cassel Oliver, Valerie, author, interviewer.
2. Brooks, LeRonn P., writer of supplementary textual content.
3. Perry, Imani, 1972- writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth, writer of supplementary textual content.
5. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2023917406

ISBN

1. 9781597115643 (hardbound)
2. 1597115649 (hardbound)

Research call number

1. Sc+ G 24-89