Dawoud Bey – Street Portraits Edition:Regular Edition Antoine d'Agata

Antoine d'Agata

Ten sentences form one paragraph

and this moment

in versions that are painted (on glass) or embroidered (by his mother) and the distinction between the copy and the original doesn’t interest him in the slightest

Photography by Tim Elkaim

Dawoud Bey – Street Portraits Edition:Regular Edition Antoine d'AgataFrom 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 environment. As part of